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050 4 $aNA2706.E85$bB67 2011
100 1 $aBork, Robert Odell,$d1967-
245 14 $aThe geometry of creation :$barchitectural drawing and the dynamics of gothic design /$cRobert Bork.
260 $aFarnham :$bAshgate,$cc2011.
300 $axxi, 462 p. :$bill. ;$c29 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliography (p. 441-451) and index.
520 8 $aThe flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design. By drawing precise 'blueprints' with simple tools such as the compass and straightedge, Gothic draftsmen were able to develop a linearized architecture of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. Examination of their surviving drawings can provide valuable and remarkably intimate information about the Gothic design process. Gothic drawings include compass pricks, uninked construction lines, and other telltale traces of the draftsman's geometrically-based working method. This book offers a new perspective on Gothic architectural creativity. It shows, in a series of rigorous geometrical case studies, how Gothic design evolved over time, in two senses: in the hours of the draftsman's labor, and across the centuries of the late Middle Ages.
650 0 $aArchitectural drawing, Medieval.
650 0 $aArchitecture, Gothic$vDesigns and plans.
650 0 $aGeometry in architecture.
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049 $aFLLM
906 $0OCLC