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A Theory of Architecture. A Theory of Architecture cover. A Theory of Architecture is a book on architecture by Nikos Salingaros, published in 2006 by Umbau-Verlag, Solingen, Germany ISBN 3-937954-07-4. Cover recommendations are by Kenneth G. Masden II, Duncan G. Stroik, Michael Blowhard, [1] and Dean A. Dykstra.
Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in all architecture schools and is practiced by the world's leading architects. Some forms that architecture theory takes are the lecture or dialogue, the treatise or book, and the paper project or competition entry.
Developed in the 1920s, Le Corbusier’s ‘Five Points of Modern Architecture’ (French: Cinq points de l'architecture moderne) are a set of architectural ideologies and classifications that are rationalized across five core components: [ 3] Pilotis – a grid of slim reinforced concrete pylons that assume the structural weight of a building.
Published in 1851, it is an attempt to explain the origins of architecture through the lens of anthropology. The book divides architecture into four distinct elements: the hearth, the roof, the enclosure and the mound. [ 1] The origins of each element can be found in the traditional crafts of ancient "barbarians": hearth – metallurgy, ceramics.
A 1521 Italian language edition of De architectura, translated and illustrated by Cesare Cesariano Manuscript of Vitruvius; parchment dating from about 1390. De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus ...
Proportion (architecture) In classical architecture, proportions were set by the radii of columns. Proportion is a central principle of architectural theory and an important connection between mathematics and art. It is the visual effect of the relationship of the various objects and spaces that make up a structure to one another and to the whole.
Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture is a book by historian and architectural theorist Charles Jencks who is well known for his contribution in post-modernism discourse. Jencks as the first architectural historian who claimed for the death of modernism, [2] here shows how post-modern architecture have developed its fundamental ...
De re aedificatoria. De re aedificatoria ( On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. [1] Although largely dependent on Vitruvius 's De architectura, it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian Renaissance, and in 1485 it became the first ...