TY - BOOK AU - Bass, Steve TI - Beauty, memory, unity : : a theory of proportion in architecture and design / T2 - (Classical America series on art and architecture) SN - 978-1-58420-967-6 AV - NA 2760 B37 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Hudson, NY : PB - Lindisfarne Books, KW - ARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC KW - PROPORTION (ANTHROPOMETRY) IN ART KW - ARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Keith Critchlow Introduction I. The Search for the beautiful : Position of proportion Number and beauty Pythagoras and qualitative number Psyche Remebrance and the journey of the soul Plotinus on beauty Beauty and the good Diotima's lecture on beauty The liberal arts : A pythagorean-based creation myth Oneness: the monad Twoness: the dyad Threeness: the triad Fourness: the tetrad Fiveness: the pentad The pentad and phi The root powers The decade The teraktys The platonic lambda Number, geometry, music Ration, proportion, logos Astronomy Looking up and down II. Number harmony design : Introduction A geometrical creation story The musical octave A tetrastyle portico An ontogeny of the root powers Properties of the root rectangles The golden section Squaring the circle A tetrastyle portico Creating a Ø scale Tetrastyle portico[s] Hexastyle portico[s] ; Octastyle portico[s] The classical order and canon of 19 The Doric capital The Ionic capital The Corinthian capital Entablatures of the three principal orders Pediments Superposition Arcades Palladio's harmonic ratios for rooms Harmonic volumes of Robert Morris An expansion of the tetrastyle An expansion of the hexastyle The "pillar" of Egypt Vertical expansion Geometric rectangles of Hambidge Division of the frame III. Proportion in practice : Introduction Egypt Greece Rome I: Vitruvius Rome II The medieval era Early Renaissance Late Renaissance The Enlightenment IV. The present moment N2 - Examining the sense of unity and harmony in architecture, and calling for a return to the use of proportion, this book ranges impressively from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Enlightment ER -