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Robert Mark plumbs the mystery of the great buildings of ancient Rome, the High Gothic era, and the Renaissance, revealing the astonishing depth of knowledge the ancient builders possessed. His findings provide a stronger technological focus for architectural history and a basis for more rational criticism of contemporary design. The Sydney Opera House, with its vast cost overruns and its years of delay, is a glaring example of misbegotten notions of structural honesty. MIT's Kresge Auditorium was conceived for visual effect without regard for technological flaws that arose from the misapplied criteria of form-follows function and forced its closing for more than a year. And in the building of Boston's John Hancock Tower, structural imperatives, were literally thrown to the winds. These are just a few of the eases in which the role of technology in the design of a large scale building has been either neglected or confused. In this book Robert Mark shows how an understanding of the technology of historical architecture can illuminate, even help eliminate, such costly misconceptions. Mark focuses on three eras - ancient Rome, the era of structural experimentation in High Gothic architecture, and the time of the great Renaissance domes - that have had lasting impacts on architectural planning. He makes full use of sophisticated computer modeling to gain new insights into early design methods insights that allow him to reinterpret technological precedents that are often misunderstood in contemporary architecture. Mark's provocative findings provide a stronger technological focus for architectural history and a basis for more rational criticism of contemporary design.

Architectuurtheorie ; proportie ; compositie ; harmonie --- Architectuur & technologie ; Rome ; Gothiek en Renaissance --- Architectuur ; techniek, werkmethoden, behoud --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- architecture [discipline] --- structural engineering --- Architecture --- Structural engineering. --- Technological innovations. --- Composition, proportion, etc. --- Architectuur en ingenieurswetenschappen --- 72.02 --- 72.01 --- 72.03 --- Architectuurtheorie --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Génie civil --- Génie civil --- Histoire (discipline) --- technologische innovatie

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These volumes provide scholarly editions of Edward Perry Warren's works (all, save one, never before re-issued), augmented by a biographical introduction, extensive notes, translations, illustrations, and appendices. For the first time, Warren's voice is heard in full-through his correspondence and other residues that constitute his commissioned Edward Perry Warren: The Biography of a Connoisseur, through his conversation, captured in Osbert Burdett's An Imaginary Conversation, through his novel A Tale of Pausanian Love (published here for the first time) and his collection The Wild Rose: A Volume of Poems, through his fairy-tale The Prince Who Did Not Exist and his scholarly article The Scandal of the Museo di Villa Giulia, through his pamphlet Classical & American Education and his retelling of three Greek legends in Alcmaeon, Hypermestra, Caeneus, and through his magnum opus, the apologia A Defence of Uranian Love.

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