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Architecture and the sciences : exchanging metaphors / Antoine Picon and Alessandra Ponte, editors ; foreword by Ralph Lerner.
Fine Arts Library NA2543.S35 A727 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Princeton papers on architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and science--Congresses.
- Architecture and science.
- Architectural design--Congresses.
- Architectural design.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The sciences have long served as a source of images and metaphors for architecture. frequently exerting a direct influence on the shaping of built space. In recent years. architects have turned with renewed vigor to science for design inspiration. Why is this? In what ways does the current appropriation of scientific methods and models. perspectives and paradigms. differ from those of the past? How did this migration of ideas from one field to the other begin. and what were its implications over time? The essays in this volume examine various points of exchange between architecture and the sciences from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Written by leading scholars in the fields of both architecture and the history of science. they offer startling insights into the character and consequences of such interdisciplinary borrowings.
- Contents:
- Ptolemy and Vitruvius: Spatial Representation in the Sixteenth-Century Texts and Commentaries / Denis Cosgrove 20
- The Place of Distribution: Episodes in the Architecture of Experiment / Edward Eigen 52
- Desert Testing / Alessandra Ponte 80
- Viollet-Le-Duc's Optic / Martin Bressani 118
- Norm and Type. Variations on a Theme / Georges Teyssot 140
- Organicism's Other / Reinhold Martin 174
- War Against the Center / Peter Galison 196
- Why All These Birds? Birds in the Sky, Birds in the Hand / Catherine Ingraham 228
- Encounters with the Face of America / Felicity D. Scott 256
- Architecture. Science. Technology, and the Virtual Realm / Antoine Picon 292
- Flow, Process, Fold / Timothy Lenoir, Casey Alt 314.
- Notes:
- Book emerged from a symposium sponsored by the School of Architecture at Princeton University during November 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1568983654
- OCLC:
- 51613893
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