Publication details
Vizuální technologie a architektonická praxe v raném novověku
| Title in English | Visual technology and architectural practice in the early modern period |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Tvarujete si sami? : sborník 3. sjezdu historiků umění, 25.-26. září 2008 |
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| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | architectural practice; stereotomy; tectonics; Early Modern architecture |
| Description | The process of architectural projecting and looking at the buildings was different in the past from our habitual art historical looking which was formed during the 19th and 20th centuries. In research of the Early Modern architecture, it is therefore necessary to recreate such ways of thinking about and looking at architecture that were originally reflected in the design and perception of buildings. In relationship to the extant examples of architectural practice, two basic ways of dealing with their image can be discerned: the thought architecture and the drawn one. The first approach prefers to work with the model, the other one works with geometry and employs three images of the building: ground-plan, front elevation and cross-section. The thought architecture is expressed by stereotomy, as analyzed in Moravia, by Václav Richter in his study of Santini. The opposite terms of stereotomy and tectonics may prove not sufficient in the future and a better comprehension of Early Modern designing practices may be helped by virtual models. |
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