The Reasoning Architect: Mathematics and Science in Design

389 Pages·1990·59.34 MB·English

by  Garry Stevens

THE REASONING ARCHIT ECT
MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE IN DESIGN

Garry Stevens
The Course of Western Architecture
1400 1500

Christopher Wren

Leon Battista Alberti Philibert De LOrme
—————— a
Filippo Brunelleschi Andrea Palladio
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Guarino Guarini
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Donato Bramdm nte
VERSITY/OF
Francesco Borromini
INIA

‘ESVILLE
ES
Giorgio Vasari
1600
nation’s band represents the proportion of great architecture constructed in that nation at each point in time. It can be seen that Italy completely
1700 1800 1900
Etienne-Louis Boullée
nee

Auguste Choisy

William Morris
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John Ruskin
Batty Langley

UK
Augustus Pugin

GERMANY a
Bernado Vittone

1700 1800 4 1900
dominates western architecture until the early s eventeenth cen tury. The United Kingdom dominates the nineteenth century, and the United
States the twentieth. Superimposed on this chart are timelines for most of the architects and architectural thinkers mentioned in the text

THE REASONING
ARCHITECT
MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE IN DESIGN

THE REASONING
ARCHITECT

Mathematics and Science in Design
Garry Stevens
University of Sydney
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THE REASONING ARCHITECT: Mathematics and Science in Design
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Arcata Graphics/Halliday was printer and binder.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stevens, Garry.
The reasoning architect: mathematics and science in design/Garry Stevens.
Pp. oom.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-07-061391-5
1. Architectural design. 2. Architecture—Mathematics. 3. Science—Methodology. L Title.
NA 2750.87 1990 89-12598,
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About
the Author
arry Stevens is lecturer in architectural sci-
ence at the University of Sydney. His first
degree is in architecture, and he holds
graduate qualifications in architectural computing
and the philosophy and sociology of science. He
has taught computer-aided architectural design,
and science and technology studies for eight
years. The Reasoning Architect is his second book to
be published by McGraw-Hill.