Disclosing horizons : : architecture, perspective and redemptive space / / Nicholas Temple.

This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design. Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation...

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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2007.
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 306 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Order and Chaos, or 'What to Leave Out?'
  • 2. Number, Geometry and Dialectic
  • 3. Light, Memory and Colour
  • 4. Topography, Rhetoric and the Vanishing Point
  • 5. Unity in Multiplicity
  • 6. Nature and Immensity
  • 7. Disjointed Views
  • Conclusion: Architecture that looks back at us.