18 Leonardo da Vinci: The Proportions of the Drawings of Sacred Buildings in Ms. B, Institut de France

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Part I Introduction
5. 1 Two Kinds of Proportion 13
6. Part II Thinking and Seeing Proportion
7. 2 Canons of Proportion and the Laws of Nature: Observations on a Permanent and Unresolved Conflict 61
8. 3 The Composto Ordinato of Michelangelo’s Biblioteca Laurenziana: Proportion or Anthropomorphy? 71
9. 4 Subjective Proportions: 18th-Century Interpretations of Paestum’s “Disproportion” 91
10. 5 Were Early Modern Architects Neoplatonists? The Case of François Blondel 113
11. 6 Plotting Gothic: A Paradox 129
12. 7 To Build Proportions in Time, or Tie Knots in Space? A Reassessment of the Renaissance Turn in Architectural Proportions 147
13. Part III Designing with Proportion
14. 8 1, 2, 3, 6: Early Gothic Architecture and Perfect Numbers 161
15. 9 Proportion and Building Material or Theory versus Practice in the Determination of the Module 183
16. 10 Approaches to Architectural Proportion and the “Poor old Parthenon” 199
17. 11 Scamozzi’s Orders and Proportions: An End to Illusions or a Visionary Harbinger? 233
18. 12 Early Modern Netherlandish Artists on Proportion in Architecture or “de questien der Simmetrien met redene der Geometrien” 249
19. 13 Proportional Design Systems in 17th-Century Holland 277
20. 14 The Matrix Regained: Reflections on the Use of the Grid in the Architectural Theories of Nicolaus Goldmann and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand 295
21. 15 Dynamic Unfolding and the Conventions of Procedure: Geometric Proportioning Strategies in Gothic Architectural Design 317
22. Part IV New Approaches to Well-Known Sources
23. 16 Divining Proportions in the Information Age 347
24. 17 Decoding the Pantheon Columns 361
25. 18 Leonardo da Vinci: The Proportions of the Drawings of Sacred Buildings in Ms. B, Institut de France 381
26. 19 Philibert de L’Orme’s Divine Proportions and the Composition of the Premier tome de l’architecture 397
27. 20 An old problem? Claude Perrault’s Views on Beauty and Proportion in Architecture and French Aesthetic Theory 415
28. Part V Twentieth-Century Perspectives
29. 21 Le Corbusier’s Modulor and the Debate on Proportion in France 437
30. 22 Between Looking and Making: Unravelling Dom Hans van der Laan’s Plastic Number 463
31. 23 Rudolph Wittkower versus Le Corbusier: A Matter of Proportion 493
32. 24 Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture: A Conversation with James S. Ackerman 511
33. Part VI Conclusion
34. 25 Ten Principles for the Study of Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture 525
35. Index 551