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RATIANOLISM. The Rational School in mid-nineteenth century was an amorphous body of architects who held that architecture was ornamented construction, essentially structural form, however refined or adorned. Found in the philosophy that reason is the source and test of knowledge and best served by deductive inquiry, and as an extension of the ...
August A. Meier (1923-2003) August Meier, University Professor Emeritus at Kent State University, died on March 19, 2003, in New York City in the care of his niece Diane Meier, a geriatric physician, and his brother Paul Meier and wife Louise. Death came after several years of impaired health due to a series of strokes.
Following a train of architectural theorists and architects across the past two millennia, we may variously understand these principles—the “Vitruvian triad”—as fundamental categorial beliefs, imperatives for practice, or guides to architectural value. Vitruvian influence on subsequent architectural theory cannot be overstated.
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Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in all architecture schools and is practiced by the world's leading architects. Some forms that architecture theory takes are the lecture or dialogue, the treatise or book, and the paper project or competition entry.
Course Description. This course is a global-oriented survey of the history of architecture, from the prehistoric to the sixteenth century. It treats buildings and environments, including cities, in the context of the cultural and civilizational history. It offers an introduction to design principles and analysis. Being global, it aims to ….
This course offers a history of architectural theory, criticism, and historiography from the Renaissance to the present, emphasizing the texts, media and institutions that have supported architecture’s claim to modernity since the late 17th Century. Architectural thought is examined in its social and cultural context as it relates both to the ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Journal metrics Editorial board. Architectural Theory Review provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on architecture in its broadest definition, including studies of environments, architectural history and historiography, architecture’s social contexts, questions of gender, sexuality, race and identity, ethics, pedagogy, design and visual ...
