Disclosing Horizons

This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design. Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of repres...

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Main Author: Temple, Nicholas (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Taylor & Francis 2007
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