The projective cast: architecture and its three geometries

Abstract

He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.

Contents

Introduction: Composition and Projection -- Ch. 1. Perturbed Circles -- Ch. 2. Persistent Breakage -- Ch. 3. Seeing through Paper -- Ch. 4. Piero's Heads -- Ch. 5. Drawn Stone -- Ch. 6. The Trouble with Numbers -- Ch. 7. Comic Lines -- Ch. 8. Forms Lost and Found Again -- Ch. 9. Rumors at the Extremities -- Conclusion: The Projective Cast.