Proportional Design Systems in Seventeenth-Century Holland

This article focuses on architectural drawings, some only recently discovered, that contain indications of authentic proportional systems from the ‘inner circle’ of Dutch seventeenth-century classical architecture. These drawings demonstrate how these architects used arithmetical grid systems as wel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Konrad Ottenheym
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2014-06-01
Series:Architectural Histories
Online Access:http://journal.eahn.org/articles/116