The dynamics of delight: Architecture and aesthetics

The Dynamics of Delight: Architecture and Aesthetics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-229

  Smith, Peter F ^a,b  

^a Royal Institute of British Architects   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203401897     Document Type: Book

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2. Jonathan Glancey, the Guardian, 26 June 2000.
3. David Watkin, Morality and Architecture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), ch. 22.
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5. Clive Bell, Art (London: Chatto and Windus, 1914).
6. Umberto Eco, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986).
7. Quoted by Pat Murphy, By Nature's Design (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993), p. 13.
8. Quoted by Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation (London: Hutchinson, 1964), p. 165.
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20. Quoted by Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation (London: Hutchinson, 1964), p. 147.
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34. One of the definitive works on this subject is Jacques Barzun's Classic, Romantic and Modern (London, 1961).
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36. Plato, Phaedrus 249b.
37. Thomas Aquinas, thirteenth-century theologian and philosopher.
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43. Mario Livio, The Accelerating Universe (London: John Wiley and Son, 2000).
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45. Close, 'Fearful Symmetry'.
46. Briggs, Fractals, p. 309.
47. Derived from Stewart, Nature's Numbers.
48. Briggs, Fractals, p. 21.
49. Max Ernst, German painter/sculptor; he was a prime mover in the Surrealism movement.
50. John Briggs, Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos (London: Thames and Hudson, 1992), p. 170.
51. Richard Taylor, 'Fractal expressionism', New Scientist (25 July 1998), pp. 30, 32.
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53. Described by John McCrone in New Scientist, 'Left brain right brain' (3 July 1999), pp. 26-30.
54. Carl Maria von Weber, nineteenth-century German composer and opera director.
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56. Frank Close, 'Fearful Symmetry', New Scientist (8 April 2000), p. 2.
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58. J.Z. Young, Programs of the Brain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 243.
59. HRH The Prince of Wales, paraphrasing Polycleitus.
60. Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (London, 1952).
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62. Vitruvius, De re aedificatoria, Book VII, Ch. 5 (1485 edn).
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81. A more detailed appraisal of these buildings is contained in Peter F. Smith, Architecture in a Climate of Change (Oxford: Architectural Press, 2001), pp. 122-5.
82. The scheme is described in more detail in P.F. Smith, Sustainability at the Cutting Edge (Oxford: Architectural Press, 2002), pp. 153-9.
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85. Peter F. Smith, Architecture in a Climate of Change (Oxford: Architectural Press, 2001).
86. Peter F. Smith, Architecture and the Principle of Harmony (London: RIBA Publications, 1987).
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100. David Watkin, Morality and Architecture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 103.
101. Watkin, Morality and Architecture, pp. 86-7.
102. See Henryk Skolimovsky, The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe.
103. Thomas R. Blakeslee, The Right Brain (London: Macmillan, 1980), p. 57.
104. Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus (London: Penguin, 1991), p. 268
105. Quoted by Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation (London: Hutchinson, 1964), p. 147.
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