1st Edition
The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture
By John Shannon Hendrix
Copyright 2013
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture , this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in... Read more
Introduction 1. Ancient and Classical: Egypt, Greece, and Rome 2. Medieval: Byzantine, Islamic, Gothic 3. Renaissance and Baroque: Architectural Theory and Form 4. Enlightenment and Idealism 5. Modernism: Structural Rationalism to Structural Linguistics 6. Postmodernism: Complexity and Contradiction 7. Bioconstructivism: Topological Theory
Biography
John Shannon Hendrix is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Adjunct Professor at Roger Williams University and at Rhode Island School of Design, USA.
