Perspective, Projections and Design : Technologies of Architectural Representation (Paperback)

1. Introduction Mario Carpo and Frederique Lemerle  2. The Theory and Practice of Perspective in Vitruvius’ De Architectura  Pierre Gros  3. Geometries of the ‘Phantasma’ Bernard Cache  4.  Computer Vision and Painters' Visions in Italian and Netherlandish Art of the Fifteenth Century Martin Kemp with Antonio Criminisi  5. Alberti's Media Lab Mario Carpo  6. Constructing Perspective in Sixteenth Century Nuremberg  Jeanne Peiffer  7. Sebastiano Serlio Prospettico: Stages in his artistic itinerary during the 1520s Sabine Frommel  8. Sebastiano Serlio: Placing perspective at the service of architects Pietro Roccasecca  9. Sophisticated Geometry, Baroque Composition Philippe Potie  10. 'The Eye of the Sun': Galileo and Pietro Accolti on Orthographic Projection Filippo Camerota  11. Fortification and Military Perspective in Seventeenth Century France Emilie d'Orgeix  12. Pictorial versus Intellectual Representation: Teaching perspective to architectural students as the Ecole des Beaux-Art in Paris (1824-1900) Alice Thomine  13. From Rationality to Utopia: Auguste Choisy and axonometric projection Thierry Mandoul  14. Project and Projections: Some advantages of the principle of opacity Daniel Estevez and Gerard Tine  15. Architectural Embodiment: Prosthetics and parasites Georges Teyssot