Buffalo, New York, USA Deadline : Jun 1, 2012
Session for the Society of Architectural Historians 2013 Annual Conference, Buffalo, New York, USA, 10-14 April 2013
A conundrum stands at the heart of early modern architecture : treatise authors argued for reasoned analysis by the hypothetical viewer, yet they also suggested responses that slipped beyond the strictures of reason’s control. One could calculate mathematical proportions precisely in one’s mind, and one could develop a cogent (...)