Classical Architecture: The Poetics of OrderThis fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules, the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama, and is enriched by a variety of examples and an extensive analysis of compositional rules. The 205 line drawings make up a discourse of their own, a pictorial text that serves as an introductory theory of composition or basic design aid. Drawing from Vitruvius, the poetics of Aristotle, the theories of classical architecture, music, and poetry since the Renaissance, and the poetics of the Russian formalists, the authors present classical architecture as a coherent system of architectural thinking that is capable of producing a tragic humanistic discourse, a public art with critical, moral, and philosophical meaning. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 17 |
Section 4 | 25 |
Section 5 | 32 |
Section 6 | 33 |
Section 7 | 35 |
Section 8 | 67 |
Section 14 | 154 |
Section 15 | 158 |
Section 16 | 171 |
Section 17 | 230 |
Section 18 | 231 |
Section 19 | 233 |
Section 20 | 243 |
Section 21 | 253 |
Section 9 | 83 |
Section 10 | 117 |
Section 11 | 124 |
Section 12 | 130 |
Section 13 | 135 |
Section 22 | 259 |
Section 23 | 273 |
Section 24 | 284 |
Section 25 | 297 |
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Classical Architecture: The Poetics of Order Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre No preview available - 1986 |
Classical Architecture: The Poetics of Order Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre No preview available - 1986 |
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