Ideas That Shaped Buildings

Name: Ideas That Shaped Buildings
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ISBN: 9780262582278

ISBN-10: 0262582279

ISBN-13: 9780262582278

Edition: 2003

Authors: M. Fil Hearn

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In this text, Fil Hearn identifies and codifies into theoretical systems the operative tenets of architectural theory from ancient Rome to the present.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 5.38" wide x 7.94" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface: Architectural Theory Is Everybody's Business


Introduction: Contours of Theoretical Development



Underpinnings (Relevant to All Theory)



Of Architecture and Architects



Standards of Judgment and Design Specification



The Uses of the Past



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



Principles (Theory from 1800 to 1965)



Rational Design Method



Generative Planning as the Basis for Design



Honest Structure as the Framework for Design



Truth to the Medium: Using Materials



Decoration and the Integrity of Design



Restoration: The Care of Inherited Buildings



Design of Cities



Convolutions (Theory since 1965)



Rationales beyond Rationalism



New Directions in Design Method


Conclusion


Time Line of Treatises (by John Hearn)


Bibliography


Credits


Index