Proportions and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Design: Measure, Relation, Analogy - Paperback

by Benjamin Dillenburger (Author), Fabienne Hoelzel (Author), Philippe Koch (Author)

English summary: In Proportions and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Design, practicing architects, historians, and theoreticians discuss the proportional systems that juxtapose aesthetic judgements, forms of practice, and human and social bodies with the norms and ideals that have resulted from these relationships. They retrace the history of these proportional systems, the expectations with which they were associated, how they were introduced into design, and how contemporary practice builds upon this tradition-or allows new interpretations to unfold. German description: In Proportions and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Design, practicing architects, historians, and theoreticians discuss the proportional systems that juxtapose aesthetic judgements, forms of practice, and human and social bodies with the norms and ideals that have resulted from these relationships. They retrace the history of these proportional systems, the expectations with which they were associated, how they were introduced into design, and how contemporary practice builds upon this tradition-or allows new interpretations to unfold.

Author Biography

Andri Gerber ist Architektur- und Stadtebauhistoriker sowie Stadtmetaphorologe. Tibor Joanelly ist Architekt und Architekturpublizist. Oya Atalay Franck ist Direktorin der ZHAW, Departement Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen.