Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry
and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history,
and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing
of architectural form. Anyone reviewing the history of
architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude
that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In
this long-awaited book, completed shortly before its author's
death, Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry
and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history,
and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing
of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not always play
a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in
the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and
drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture
that is based on the many transactions between architecture and
geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe,
from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. From the Henry VII
chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp, from
Raphael's S. Eligio and the work of Piero della Francesca and
Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism,
Evans explores the geometries involved, asking whether they are in
fact the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or
rhetorical aspects of architecture. In particular he concentrates
on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision
that has become an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of
construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in
the development of architectural theory. Evans describes the
ambivalent role that pictures play in architecture and urges
resistance to the idea that pictures provide all that architects
need, suggesting that there is much more within the scope of the
architect's vision of a project than what can be drawn. He defines
the different fields of projective transmission that concern
architecture, and investigates the ambiguities of projection and
the interaction of imagination with projection and its metaphors.
General
Imprint: |
MIT Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Projective Cast |
Release date: |
August 2000 |
First published: |
2000 |
Authors: |
Robin Evans
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Dimensions: |
267 x 210 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
452 |
Edition: |
Revised |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-262-55038-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
Theory of architecture
|
LSN: |
0-262-55038-5 |
Barcode: |
9780262550383 |
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