Proportional Systemsin the Historyof ArchitectureA Critical Reconsideration
Edited byMatthew A. Cohenand Maarten Delbeke
Acknowledgements
Part! Introduction
1 Two Kinds of ProportionMatthew A. Cohen
Partll Thinking and Seeing Proportion
2 Canons of Proportion and the Laws of Nature:Observations on a Permanent and Unresolved Conflict
Mario Curti
3 The Composto Ordinato of Michelangelo's Biblioteca Laurenziana:Proportion or Anthropomorphy?
Caroline van Eck 7
Subjective Proportions:18th-Century Interpretations of Paestum's "Disproportion"
Sigrid de Jong
5. Were Early Modern Architects Neoplatonists?The Case of Francois Blondel
Anthony Gerbino
5 Plotting Gothic:A Paradox
Stephen Murray
To Build Proportions in Time, or Tie Knots in Space?A Reassessment of the Renaissance Turn in Architectural
ProportionsMarvin Trachtenberg
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Part lll Designing with Proportion
8 Early Gothic Architecture and Perfect NumbersElizabeth den Hartog
9 Proportion and Building Material or Theory versus Practicein the Determination of the Module
Lex Bosman
10 Approaches to Architectural Proportion and the "Poor oldParthenon"
Mark Wilson Jones
11 Scamozzi's Orders and Proportions:An End to Illusions or a Visionary Harbinger?
Franco Barbieri
12 Early Modern Netherlandish Artists on Proportion in Architectureor "de questien der Simmetrien met redene der Geometrien"
Krista De Jonge -
13 Proportional Design Systems in 17th-Century HollandKonrad Ottenheym
14 The Matrix Regained:Reflections on the Use of the Grid in the Architectural Theoriesof Nicolaus Goldmann and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
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15 Dynamic Unfolding and the Conventions of Procedure:Geometric Proportioning Strategies in Gothic Architectural Design
Robert Bork 317
Part IV New Approaches to Well-Known Sources
16 Divining Proportions in the Information AgeAndrew Tallon
17 Decoding the Pantheon ColumnsGerd GraBhoff and Christian Berndt
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18 Leonardo da Vinci:The Proportions of the Drawings of Sacred Buildings in Ms. B,Institut de France
Francesco P. Di Teodoro
19 Philibert de L'Orme's Divine Proportions and the Compositionofthe Premier tome de l'architecture
Sara Galletti
20 An old problem?Claude Perrault's Views on Beauty and Proportion in Architectureand French Aesthetic Theory
Maarten Delbeke
Twentieth-Century Perspectives
21 Le Corbusier's Modulor and the Debate on Proportion in FranceJean-Louis Cohen
22 Between Looking and Making:Unravelling Dom Hans van der Laan's Plastic Number
Caroline Voet
23 Rudolph Wittkower versus Le Corbusier:A Matter of Proportion
Francesco Benelli
24 Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture:A Conversation with James S. Ackerman
Conducted and edited by Matthew A. Cohen
Part VI Conclusion
25 Ten Principles for the Study of Proportional Systems in theHistory of Architecture
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