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      The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture
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      The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

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      The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture book

      ByJohn Shannon Hendrix
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2013
      eBook Published 5 February 2013
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203070932
      Pages 232
      eBook ISBN 9780203070932
      Subjects Built Environment
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      Hendrix, J.S. (2013). The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203070932

      ABSTRACT

      Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in architecture.

      Here the role of the terms "form" and "function" are analyzed throughout the history of architecture and architectural theory, from Vitruvius to the present, with particular emphasis on twentieth-century functionalism. Historical examples are given from Ancient, Classical, Islamic, Christian, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerist, and Neoclassical architecture, and from movements in the twentieth century to the present.

      In addition philosophical issues such as lineamenti, Vorstellung, différance, dream construction, deep structure and surface structure, topology theory, self-generation, and immanence are explored in relation to the compositions and writings of architects throughout history.

      This book contributes to the project of re-establishing architecture as a humanistic discipline, to re-establish an emphasis on the expression of ideas, and on the ethical role of architecture to engage the intellect of the observer and to represent human identity.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |18 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Ancient and Classical: Egypt, Greece, and Rome

      chapter 2|28 pages

      Medieval: Byzantine, Islamic, Gothic

      chapter 3|22 pages

      Renaissance and Baroque: architectural theory and form

      chapter 4|30 pages

      Enlightenment and idealism 85 87 94 96 110

      BySchinkel Schelling Hegel Kant Berkeley

      chapter 5|54 pages

      Modernism: structural rationalism to structural linguistics 115 117 126

      ByViollet-le-Duc Sullivan Horta

      chapter 6|24 pages

      Postmodernism: complexity and contradiction 169

      ByVenturi Eisenman171

      chapter 7|12 pages

      Bioconstructivism: topological theory

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