Author : Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : Architecture
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Précis of the Lectures on Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Précis of the Lectures on Architecture write by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Précis of the Lectures on Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.