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Book Title
Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque
Publication Date
2001-03-01
Pages
284
ISBN
9780226327839

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226327833
ISBN-13
9780226327839
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1702586

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
284 Pages
Publication Name
Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Subject
Regional, History / Baroque & Rococo, History / General
Type
Textbook
Author
George L. Hersey
Subject Area
Architecture
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
29.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-037791
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
724/.16
Table Of Content
1. INTRODUCTION Baroque Architecture and Baroque Geometry; Effable Shapes; Square-Based Proportion; Effable Number Sequences; The Golden Section Sequence; The Fibonacci Sequence; Heavenly Fabrics 2. FROZEN MUSIC Modular Music; Planetary Music; Angel Music; Architectural Acoustics; Sounding Boxes for Preachers; Blondel: The Attic Bass; Consonance and Dissonance; Spatial Triads; The Music of Bernini's Baldacchino 3. THE LIGHT OF UNSEEN WORLDS Number, Light, and Music; Projecting Images; The Eye; Lenses and Reflectors; Microscopes, Telescopes, and Magic Lanterns; Optical Domes and Lanterns; St. Peter's; The Invalides; St. Paul's; The Paris Panthéon; Armillary Spheres and Orreries; Boullé's Newton Tomb; St. Bride's, Fleet Street 4. CUBICES RATIONES Engendering Geometry; "Congruence" or Tilling; The Cube and Its Progeny; Pregnant Platonic Solids; Rhombic and Archimedean Solids 5. SYMMETRIES What is Symmetry? What Has Symmetry Been? Reflective Symmetry; Translatory Symmetry; Glide Symmetry; Wallpaper Symmetry; Further Advances of the Nine-Square Lattice; Spiral Symmetries 6. STRETCHED CIRCLES AND SQUEEZED SPHERES The Beauties of Distortion; Ovals, Ellipses, Parabolas, and Hyperbolas; Borromini; St. Peter's Colonnade; Blondel's Parabolic and Hyperbolic Openings; Squeezed Spheres; Packed Paraboloids 7. PROJECTION Projective Geometry; Descartes's Lattice; The Costruzione Legittima; Girard Desargues's Perspective; Desargues's Geometry; Shadow Projection; Projection in Military Architecture; Projection and Spiral Stairs 8. EPICYCLES Epicycles (and Epicycloids); Epicyclic Architecture; Eccentric Epicycles; Elliptical Epicycles; Broken Symmetry 9. UNFORGOTTEN LORE Geometry in the Twentieth Century; Frank Lloyd Wright; Le Corbusier; The Modulor Man; The Other Fathers of the Modulor Man; Modulor Lattices Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He introduces us to a concept of geometry that encompassed more than the modern science of today, one that included geometrics (number and shape games), as well as introducing us to the art of geomancy, or magic and phrophecy using shapes and numbers. At first the text concentrates on specific problems in geometry and architectural design, and then it explores the affinities between music and several types of architectural form. Hersey shows how architects incorporated light into their architecture and how abstract ideas were transformed into visual, tactile form. He also looks at how Baroque form resonates in the modern form, in the work of architects such as Frank lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. A disccusion of modern links to the past rounds off this re-examination of Baroque beliefs and practices., The age of the Baroque--a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics--witnessed the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. What did the work of great architects such as Bernini, Blondel, Guarini, and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo, Kepler, Desargues, and Newton? Here, George Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its dramatic shapes and playful experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He introduces us to a concept of geometry that encompassed much more than the science we know today, one that included geometrics (number and shape games), as well as the art of geomancy, or magic and prophecy using shapes and numbers. Hersey first concentrates on specific problems in geometry and architectural design. He then explores the affinities between musical chords and several types of architectural form. He turns to advances in optics, such as artificial lenses and magic lanterns, to show how architects incorporated light, a heavenly emanation, into their impressive domes. With ample illustrations and lucid, witty language, Hersey shows how abstract ideas were transformed into visual, tactile form--the epicycles of the cosmos, the sexual mystique surrounding the cube, and the imperfections of heavenly bodies. Some two centuries later, he finds that the geometric principles of the Baroque resonate, often unexpectedly, in the work of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. A discussion of these surprising links to the past rounds out this brilliant reexamination of some of the long-forgotten beliefs and practices that helped produce some of Europe's greatest masterpieces.
LC Classification Number
NA956.H47 2000

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