Classical architecture : the poetics of order / Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tzonis, Alexander.

Contributor:

Lefaivre, Liane.

Tzonis, Alexander.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Classical.

Architecture--Orders.

Architecture.

Penn Provenance:

Tzonis, Alexander (autograph, 24 October 1986) (Fine Arts Rare copy)

Lefaivre, Liane (autograph, 24 October 1986) (Fine Arts Rare copy)

Perkins, G. Holmes (George Holmes) (donor) (inscription, 24 October 1986) (Fine Arts Rare copy)

Physical Description:

x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1986]

Summary:

This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture investigates the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules, the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama, and is enriched by a variety of examples and an extensive analysis of compositional rules. The 205 line drawings make up a discourse of their own, a pictorial text that serves as an introductory theory of composition or basic design aid.

Contents:

Logos Opticos: The Logic of Composition 1

I Rules of Composition

1 Taxis: the Framework 9

2 The Genera: The Elements 35

3 Symmetry: The Relations 117

II Anthology of Classical Works

4 Architectural Scansion 171

5 Parataxis: The Architectural Parade 243

III Why Classicism?

6 Entaxis: Confrontations and Conflicts 259

7 Critical Classicism: The Tragic Function 273.

Notes:

"This publication draws in part from De taal van de klassicistiese architektuur"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Bibliograraphy: pages 289-299.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Fine Arts Rare copy inscribed by the authors to G. Holmes Perkins on t.p.

Related Work:

Tzonis, Alexander. De taal van de klassicistiese architektuur.

ISBN:

0262200597

OCLC:

13330006