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Precis of the Lectures on Architecture: With Graphic Portion of the Lectures on Architecture (Texts and Documents Series)
by Jean-Nicholas-Louis Durand
Binding: Paperback, illustrated edition edition, 360 pages
Publisher: Getty Publications
Weight: 2.02 pound
Dimension: H: 1.06 x L: 9.94 x W: 7.02 inches
ISBN 10: 0892365803
ISBN 13: 9780892365807
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Jean Nicolas Louis Durand Durand (1760 1834) regarded the Precis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802 5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Precis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.

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