| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Ideas that shaped buildings/ Fil Hearn. |
| Author: |
Hearn, M. F. |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :MIT Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
xiv, 356 p. :ill. ;21 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Architecture - Philosophy. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=138681An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1423729862 (electronic bk.) |