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.
