The contradiction between form and function in architecture
By: John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780415639132; 9780415639149; 9780203070932
Subjects: Philosophy; Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient and classical: Egypt, Greece, and Rome; title: Medieval: Byzantine, Islamic, Gothic; title: Renaissance and Baroque: architectural theory and form; title: Enlightenment and idealism; title: Modernism: structural rationalism to structural linguistics; title: Postmodernism: complexity and contradiction, cardboard architecture, late capitalism, deconstructivism; title: Bioconstructivism: topological theory.