Précis of the Lectures on Architecture: With Graphic Portion of the Lectures on Architecture (Texts & Documents)

By Jean-Nicholas-Louis Durand

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand Durand (1760-1834) regarded the Pr cis 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 Pr cis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892365803
• ISBN13: 9780892365807
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.9" x 1.0" x 7.0"