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Leonardo’s Representational Technique for Centrally-Planned Temples

Xavier, Jo~o Pedro

Abstract. Leonardo invented a new technique of representation which combines the building plan and a bird’s-eye perspective of the whole into a single system. Bird’s eye perspective may have developed out of cavalier perspective, and instances pre-dating Leonardo can be found, but not used in the same way as he employed it. Though not pre-axonometric, Leonardo took advantage of axonometric representation’s capacity to construct/deconstruct an object into its component parts in order to clarify fitting and functioning. This paper investigates the originality of the technique and special relationship with his research on centrally-planned churches, while examining it in the context of contemporary developments and architects.

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Leonardo’s Representational Technique for Centrally-Planned Temples

Xavier, Jo~o Pedro

Abstract. Leonardo invented a new technique of representation which combines the building plan and a bird’s-eye perspective of the whole into a single system. Bird’s eye perspective may have developed out of cavalier perspective, and instances pre-dating Leonardo can be found, but not used in the same way as he employed it. Though not pre-axonometric, Leonardo took advantage of axonometric representation’s capacity to construct/deconstruct an object into its component parts in order to clarify fitting and functioning. This paper investigates the originality of the technique and special relationship with his research on centrally-planned churches, while examining it in the context of contemporary developments and architects.

Leonardo’s Representational Technique for Centrally-Planned Temples

Xavier, Jo~o Pedro

Abstract. Leonardo invented a new technique of representation which combines the building plan and a bird’s-eye perspective of the whole into a single system. Bird’s eye perspective may have developed out of cavalier perspective, and instances pre-dating Leonardo can be found, but not used in the same way as he employed it. Though not pre-axonometric, Leonardo took advantage of axonometric representation’s capacity to construct/deconstruct an object into its component parts in order to clarify fitting and functioning. This paper investigates the originality of the technique and special relationship with his research on centrally-planned churches, while examining it in the context of contemporary developments and architects.

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Title:

Leonardo’s Representational Technique for Centrally-Planned Temples

Contributors:

Xavier, Jo~o Pedro (author)

Published in:

Nexus Network Journal ; 10 ; 77-99

Publication date:

2008-04-01

Size:

23 pages

ISSN:

1522-4600 , 1590-5896

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-007-0057-7

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Electronic Resource

Language:

English

Keywords:

Leonardo da Vinci , representational techniques , bird’s eye perspective , cavalier perspective , axonometry , centrally-planned architecture Mathematics , Mathematics, general , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics , Popular Science, general , History, general

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