To Build Proportions in Time, or Tie Knots in Space? A Reassessment of the Renaissance Turn in Architectural Proportions
Since Alberti, and most critically since Wittkower’s 'Architectural Principles', architectural theory has tended to construe ‘proportions’ in plenary, static terms. The dimension of time and change that relentlessly affects all human endeavor is not accommodated by the celebrated Albertian...
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| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Architectural Histories |
| Online Access: | http://journal.eahn.org/articles/117 |