Ideas that shaped buildings / Fil Hearn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearn, M. F. (Millard Fillmore), 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

xiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003]

Summary:

Identifying the operative ideas in architectural theory from ancient Rome to the present and codifying them into coherent theoretical systems; for students, practitioners, and the general reader.

Contents:

Preface : architectural theory is everybody's businesss

Introduction : contours of theoretical development

I. Underpinnings (relevant to all theory)

Of architecture and architects

Standards of judgment and design justifications

The uses of the past

II. Conventions (theory before 1800)

Images of the ideal and classical design method

The orders : evolving rules for formal beauty

The alternative aesthetic : breaking the rules

Proportion : the orders and architectural spaces

III. Principles (theory from 1800-1965)

Rational design method

Generative planning as the basis of design

Honest structure as the framework of design

Truth to the medium : using materials

Decoration and the integrity of design

Restoration : the care of inherited buildings

Design of cities

IV. Convolutions (theory since 1965)

Rationales beyond rationalism

New directions in design method

Time line of treatises / John Hearn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-350) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0262582279

OCLC:

52092110