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

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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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