Fabian Kohler For this exercise, I turned to the essence of my book “Theatrum Architecturae civilis”. It could be considered a guide to architecture, covering many aspects of the field. From the actual construction of walls, columns, and so on to more fundamental conceptual knowledge such as proportions, geometry, symmetries are also present. To all…
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Task 4: Connections François Blondel – Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places (1686) The first book in which I could directly find several similarities was by Francois Blondel; Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places. It was published only one year before L’experience de l’architecture militaire, written in French and deals with the subject of military…
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I’ve been wondering all along how the book list was arranged. Is it arbitrary or is there a purpose behind it? Now I was asked to find out my burning question in the last assignment ‘task 4’. Trivial as it may seem, I began my research with the bare name of my author: Isaac Ware….