Issue Editors Matthew A. Cohen and Maarten Delbeke
Prior to the advent of modern structural engineering, architects and builders considered proportional systems to be necessary tools for determining key dimensions of their works in terms of local units of measure. They also believed that proportional systems conferred upon their works a general condition of order that was integral to their notions of structural stability and beauty. As the conference devoted to this subject, held in Milan in 1951, evidenced, since the Middle Ages the phenomenon of proportional systems transformed and continued in various capacities as a complex framework of belief. On the sixtieth anniversary of that conference, in 2011 a conference at the University of Leiden looked anew at the history of proportional systems, and has in turn led to this special collection. The following papers explore proportional systems as design methods and modes of belief since Antiquity; current scholarly assumptions in light of the historiography of proportion; and the buildings themselves, using new tools and methods that increasingly replace preconception with precision.
Andrew Tallon
2014-06-20 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2014 • Volume 2 • Art. 15
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Collection: Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Stephen Murray
2014-06-20 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2014 • Volume 2 • Art. 16
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Collection: Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Elizabeth den Hartog
2014-06-20 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2014 • Volume 2 • Art. 17
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Collection: Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Gerd Grasshoff and Christian Berndt
2014-06-20 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2014 • Volume 2 • Art. 18
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Collection: Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Francesco Benelli
2015-05-08 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Volume 3 • Art. 8
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Collection: Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Jeroen Goudeau
2015-05-18 Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Volume 3 • Art. 9
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Collection: Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Robert Bork
2014-09-29 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2014 • Volume 2 • Art. 24
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Collection: Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Matthew A Cohen
2014-06-20 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2014 • Volume 2 • Art. 21
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Collection: Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture