The reasoning architect: mathematics and science in design

by Stevens, Garry

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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:1 online resource (xxi, 362 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

oclc:ocn988260997
LC Classification:NA2750
Dewey Decimal:720/.1/51

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.

Subjects

Architectural design Architecture Architecture -- Mathematics Architecture -- Mathématiques Architekturtheorie Design architectural Science -- Methodology Sciences -- Méthodologie