Title Statements
- Full title :The reasoning architect : mathematics and science in design / Garry Stevens.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1990
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):McGraw-Hill
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1990
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 362 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0070613915, 9780070613911, 0070613966, 9780070613966, 007100923X, 9780071009232
- oclc:on1200238433
- LC Classification:NA2750
- Dewey Decimal:720/.1/51
Table of Contents
The reasoning architect : mathematics, science, and art in architecture -- Primitive notions : mathematics in preclassical civilization -- The whole heaven a number : Greek philosophy and mathematics -- Theory into practice : Greek geometry and classical architecture -- By force of reason : logic and deduction -- Order from chaos : mathematics and architecture in the Middle Ages -- The sense of proportion : renaissance mathematics and architecture -- A new perspective : art and science in the renaissance -- The enterprise of science : the scientific revolution and the Baroque -- An ordered universe : enlightenment -- The world in a box : mathematical models and nineteenth-century science -- Finding the best : our century and mathematics -- The postmodern condition : reason and architecture after modernism.
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