Author: Evans, Robin
Title: The Projective Cast : Architecture and Its Three Geometries
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 29x20cm, xxxvii,413 pp.. Some rubbing. Small ink mark to top page-edge. VG. ¶ Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In this text Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. Evans shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the 15th to the 20th centuries. From the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier' s Ronchamp, from Raphael's S. Eligio and the work of Piero delia Francesca and Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism, this book explores the geometries involved, asking whether they are in fact the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or rhetorical aspects of architecture. In particular it concentrates on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision that has become an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in the development of architectural theory...." - Publisher's description.

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