Pythagorean Palaces, magic and architecture in the Italian Renaissance.
Pythagorean History
One sunny afternoon while xeroxing some nonsense, two in house intellectuals was discussing the subject of “Pythagorean”, immediately came to mind was one of the great history professor at Cornell Prof. Hersey whom wrote the book - Pythagorean Palaces, magic and architecture in the Italian Renaissance.
Historically architect have adapt this theorem to their architecture, ie Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris and during the 21th century canonical work of Holl and Ando, just to name a few, with substance or is it just visual. Is there a new Pythagorean Renaissance, or can we even call it that? Read this and a companion book that might assist you the formulation.
Pythagorean Palaces, magic and architecture in the Italian Renaissance.
By Professor Hersey
“This book re-examines Italian Renaissance domestic architecture from the viewpoint of Pythagorean geometry, which was the principle mathematical philosophy inculcated in Renaissance architectural education. It governed the whole approach of the Renaissance architect at least from the period of Alberti, in the early fifteen century, through the Vincenzo Scamozzi at the beginning of the seventeenth. “
Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and His Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
By Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier's
review by Professor Hersey while teaching at Yale
"Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier's book is a much-needed corrective for our inadequate understanding of this great, much-forgotten, much-misprised thinker. Her lucid, deeply learned linkage of Pythagoreanism to ancient and medieval art is particularly welcome."
