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Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science - The MIT Press New edition
Perez-Gomez, Alberto (Saidye Rosner BronfmanProfessor Director of the History and Theory of Architecture Program, McGill University)
Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science - The MIT Press New edition
Perez-Gomez, Alberto (Saidye Rosner BronfmanProfessor Director of the History and Theory of Architecture Program, McGill University)
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.
424 pages, 76
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 11, 1985 |
ISBN13 | 9780262660556 |
Publishers | MIT Press Ltd |
Pages | 400 |
Dimensions | 152 × 231 × 25 mm · 571 g |
Language | English |
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