Proportions and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Design: Measure, Relation, Analogy

by Werner Oechslin, Martin Tschanz, Philippe Rahm, et al.

English summary: In Proportions and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Design, practicing architects, historians, and theoreticians discuss the proportional systems that juxtapose aesthetic judgements, forms of practice, and human and social bodies with the norms and ideals that have resulted from these relationships. They retrace the history of these proportional systems, the expectations with which they were associated, how they were introduced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3496016191
• ISBN13: 9783496016199
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Dietrich Reimer
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.4"