Timely timelessness: traditional proportions and modern practice in Kahn's Kimbell Museum

DOI10.1007/S00004-006-0003-0zbMATH Open1107.00008OpenAlexW2051016069MaRDI QIDQ860192FDOQ860192

Authors: Steven Fleming, Mark A. Reynolds 

Publication date: 24 January 2007

Published in: Nexus Network Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-006-0003-0

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zbMATH Keywords

proportiongeometric analysisKimball Art MuseumLouis KahnModernismtextural analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General applied mathematics (00A69) Analytic and descriptive geometry (51N99)

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