Claypool, M;
(2015)
Consequences of Proportional Systems in Architecture.
In: Ruy, D and Sheppard, L, (eds.)
103rd ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center.
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Abstract
The system of architecture inscribed by Vitruvius in De Architectura and famously drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490, as well as Cesar Cesariano after him in 1521, has provided modern architecture and art historians with argumentation for placing the architectural object at the centre of a system of relations between symmetry, geometry and proportion. When one looks at the last 100 years, this system of relations can be seen to have regulated, in varying ways, architectural design methodology since its ‘rediscovery’ and re-inscription into architectural discourse in the middle of the 20th century by the architecture and art historians, such as Rudolf Wittkower in his book Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (1949) and the essays by Colin Rowe titled “The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa” (Architectural Review, 1947) and “Mannerism and Modernism” (Architectural Review, 1950). This paper, which is a work-in-progress excerpt from PhD research by the author, argues that these works established a dominant fiction(1) in the discipline of architecture, or a way for architects to perceive and interpret the built environment. However, with advances in the technology of production in the last twenty years, and, in parallel, the development of contemporary discourses of computation and digital design in relationship to the natural sciences, this system can be questioned and the dialogue between forms of production, systems of proportion and architecture re-opened.1 – The term ‘dominant fiction’ was outlined in Silverman, Kaja. Male Subjectivities at the Margin, Psychology Press (1992).
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Consequences of Proportional Systems in Architecture |
| Event: | 103rd ACSA Annual Meeting |
| ISBN-13: | 978-0-935502-95-4 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.acsa-arch.org/chapter/consequences-of-... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10116465 |
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