Architectural principles in the age of cybernetics / Christopher Hight.
By: Hight, Christopher.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2008Description: vii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415384827 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Architecture -- Philosophy
| Humanism in architecture | Ratio and proportionDDC classification: 720.1
Partial contents:
1. Introduction - 2. The phenomenal origin of architecture - 3. The structural continuities of classicism - 4. Modulor residues of history - 5. A mid-century renaissance - 6. The schema and the diagram - 7. The symbolic strikes back - 8. Measured response - 9. Reflections of the modulor - 10. Measuring vortices - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-230) and index.
1. Introduction - 2. The phenomenal origin of architecture - 3. The structural continuities of classicism - 4. Modulor residues of history - 5. A mid-century renaissance - 6. The schema and the diagram - 7. The symbolic strikes back - 8. Measured response - 9. Reflections of the modulor - 10. Measuring vortices - Index.