The Art of Building in the Classical World : Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture / John R. Senseney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Senseney, John R. (John Robert), 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design.

Architectural drawing.

Architecture, Classical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe in science and philosophy. Building on recent scholarship that examines and reconstructs the design process of classical architecture, John R. Senseney focuses on technical drawing in the building trade as a model for the expression of visual order, showing that the techniques of ancient Greek drawing actively determined concepts about the world. He argues that the uniquely Greek innovations of graphic construction determined principles that shaped the massing, special qualities and refinements of buildings and the manner in which order itself was envisioned.

Contents:

Introduction: challenges of analysis and interpretation

The ideas of architecture

Vision and spatial representation

The genesis of scale drawing and linear perspective

Architectural vision

Excursus: Envisioning cosmic mechanism in Plato and Vitruvius

Appendix A: Analysis of the dimensions of the blueprint for entasis at Didyma

Appendix B: Analysis of the hypothetical working drawing for platform curvature at Segesta

Appendix C: Analysis of the hypothetical working drawing for platform curvature in the Parthenon.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22049-1

1-139-03626-2

1-283-05503-1

9786613055033

1-139-04172-X

0-511-97671-2

1-139-04249-1

1-139-04513-X

1-139-03858-3

1-139-04095-2

OCLC:

710974888