1st Edition

Disclosing Horizons Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

By Nicholas Temple Copyright 2007
320 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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: Architecture that looks back at us

Biography

Nicholas Temple is Professor of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture of the University of Lincoln, having previously taught at the University of Liverpool, Leeds Metropolitan University, the University of Nottingham and the University of Pennsylvania.