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The seminar essay asks you to analyse, read for argument and discuss a text that focuses on the practice of architectural history relevant to one weeks lecture and seminar discussion.
chosen question:
Question one
Alberto Perez-Gomez, Introduction in Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, MIT Press, 1983, pp. 3-14
How is geometrical certainty in architecture, the use of consistent measure and the calculation of proportional relationships linked to the eradication of the mythic in architecture? Present Perez-Gomezs argument on how the emergence of modern science changed architecture
