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Record Nr.

UNINA9911003678903321

Autore

Temple Nicholas

Titolo

Disclosing horizons : architecture, perspective and redemptive space / / Nicholas Temple

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2006

London : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2007

ISBN

1-134-11707-8

1-134-11708-6

1-280-65194-6

9786610651948

0-203-96810-7

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Classificazione

ARC000000ARC001000ARC005000

Disciplina

720.1

Soggetti

Architecture and philosophy

Perspective (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from content provider.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustration credits; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Order and chaos, or "What to leave out?"; 2. Number, geometry and dialectic; 3. Light, memory and colour; 4. Topography, rhetoric and the vanishing point; 5. Unity in multiplicity; 6. Nature and immensity; 7. Disjointed views; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design. Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. Temple argues that underlying the symbolic and epistemological meanings of perspective there prevails a deeply embedded redemptive view of the world that is deemed perfectible. Temple explores this idea through a genealogical investigation of the cultural and philosophical contexts of



perspective throughout history, highlighting how these developments influenced architectural thought. This broad historical enquiry is accompanied by a series of case-studies of modern or contemporary buildings, each demonstrating a particular affinity with the accompanying historical model of perspective.