| Description |
vii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ancient and classical: Egypt, Greece, and Rome -- Medieval: Byzantine, Islamic, Gothic -- Renaissance and Baroque: architectural theory and form -- Enlightenment and idealism -- Modernism: structural rationalism to structural linguistics -- Postmodernism: complexity and contradiction, cardboard architecture, late capitalism, deconstructivism -- Bioconstructivism: topological theory |
| Summary |
This book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
2012029137 |
| ISBN |
9780415639132 (hb : alk. paper) |
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9780415639149 (pb : alk. paper) |
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(ebook) |
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