Ad Quadratum The Practical Application of Geometry in Medieval Architecture 1st Edition by Nancy Y Wu ISBN 0754619605 9780754619604

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ISBN 10: 0754619605

ISBN 13: 9780754619604 

Author: Nancy Y. Wu

The purpose of the project is to provide the most up-to-date survey on issues dealing with practical geometry and how it might have been applied in the design of medieval architecture. Chronologically, the topics cover a wide span – from early Medieval through Late Gothic. Geographically, the monuments under discussion range from Early Medieval Florence through Carolingian Germany, Crusader Cyprus, Romanesque France and Gothic England. The applications of both geometry and metrology are considered in this volume, often with illustrations generated by computer-assisted design (CAD) software. The project therefore offers recent scholarship in the field, as well as cutting-edge technology which helps propel the pursuit of such studies. To this end, the project is the first of its kind both in terms of its focus and its comprehensiveness. Such a project is sorely needed to introduce this highly specialized discipline to other historians of art, history, and science of the Middle Ages, as well as historians in most humanistic areas.

Table of contents:

1: Preface
2: Introduction
3: Geometry on a Carolingian wall
4: A proposal for constructing the plan and elevation of a Romanesque church using three measures
5: Measure and proportion in Romanesque architecture
6: A schematic plan for Norwich Cathedral
7: The plan of Saint-Quentin: pentagon and square in the genesis of high Gothic design
8: The hand of the mind: the ground plan of Reims as a case study
9: Reconciling the feet at Beauvais and Amiens Cathedrals
10: On the drawing board: plans of the Clermont Cathedral terrace
11: Geometry studies: the blind tracery in the western chapels of Narbonne Cathedral
12: The Church of St George of the Latins in Famagusta: a case study on medieval metrology and design techniques
13: Geometry and scenography in the late Gothic choir of Metz Cathedral

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