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020			_a978-1-58420-967-6
040			_aNUFAIRVIEW _cNUFAIRVIEW
050			_aNA 2760 B37 2019
100			_aBass, Steve _eauthor
245		0	_aBeauty, memory, unity : _ba theory of proportion in architecture and design / _cSteve Bass
260			_aHudson, NY : _bLindisfarne Books, _cc2019.
300			_axii, 355 pages : _billustration. ; _c31 cm.
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490			_a(Classical America series on art and architecture)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aForeword / 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
520			_aExamining 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.
650			_aARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC.
650			_aPROPORTION (ANTHROPOMETRY) IN ART.
650			_a ARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC.
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