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Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science
	Author: Alberto Perez-gomez Publisher: The MIT Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$50.00~~ Buy Used: $7.52 You Save: $42.48 (85%) New (9) Used (10) from $7.52 Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 341188 Media: Paperback Pages: 424 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6 Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1 ISBN: 0262660555 Dewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9780262660556 ASIN: 0262660555 Publication Date: April 11, 1985 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Damp staining to foredge, warping last few pages. Cover worn, edges chipping. Ships Within 24 Hours - Satisfaction Guaranteed!


Editorial Reviews: Product Description Winner, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians. Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today. Throughout, it relates the major architectural treatises of successive generations to the larger culture and the writings of philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. Alberto Perez-Gomez is Director of the School of Architecture at Carleton University in Ottowa.