Scale by Adler, Gerald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Scale AHRA Title Page Copyright Contents Illustration credits Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Excursus 1: The scale of the detail

Scale before the twentieth century

The role of small-scale images by Wenceslaus Hollar: the rebuilding of London in the late seventeenth century Mildendo and Masdar: a tale of two cities ‘Examining the knots … counting the bricks’: John Ruskin's innocent eye The worm's eye as a measure of man: Choisy's development of axonometry in architectural representation

Excursus 2: Scale in recent projects by MVRDV

Scale in art and perception

Colour scales Scales of interaction: aligning the qualitative with the quantitative in music and architecture Architectural scale: psychoanalysis and Adrian Stokes Sublime indifference Measuring up: measurement pieces and the redefinition of scale in conceptual art Scaling haptics – haptic scaling: studying scale and scaling in the haptic design process of two architects who lost their sight Scale adjustment in architecture and music

Excursus 3: Complex ordinariness in Oxford: ‘House after Two Years of Living’

Scale in the twentieth century and beyond

Ethos pathos logos: architects and their chairs ‘Halfway between the electron and the universe’: Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia Little boxes Scale and identity in the housing projects of Coderch Politics and the deliquescence of scale: the Columbaria of Brodsky and Utkin

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