Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients

Name: Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients
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ISBN: 9780892362332

ISBN-10: 0892362332

ISBN-13: 9780892362332

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Authors: Claude Perrault, Alberto Pï¿½rez-Gï¿½mez, Indra Kagis McEwen

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Perrault argues that rules of architecture be determined by reason, not by ancient precedent.

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List price: $25.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/11/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Alberto Pï¿½rez-Gï¿½mez is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture at McGill University. He is the author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (MIT Press, 1983) and (with Louise Pelletier) Architecural Representation and the Perspective Hinge (MIT Press, 1997).



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Preface


Ordonnance and the Architectural Orders


The Dimensions Regulating the Proportions of the Orders


The General Proportions of the Three Main Parts of Entire Columns


The Height of Entablatures


The Length of Columns


The Height of Entire Pedestals


The Proportions of the Parts of Pedestals


The Diminution and Enlargement of Columns


The Projection of the Base of Columns


The Projection of the Base and Cornice of Pedestals


The Projection of the Cornice of Entablatures


The Proportions of Capitals


The Proportions of the Astragal and the Lip of the Column Shaft


The Tuscan Order


The Doric Order


The Ionic Order


The Corinthian Order


The Composite Order


Pilasters


Abuses in the Alteration of Proportions


Some Other Abuses Introduced into Modern Architecture


Bibliography


Index