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PHILIBERT DE L'ORME'S THOUGHTS ON COSMOS AND ARCHITECTURE : A study on Epitre aux lecturs in Le Premier Tome de l'Architecture

1995; Architectural Institute of Japan; Volume: 60; Issue: 473 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3130/aija.60.177_3

1881-8161

Takahiro TAJI,

Historical and Architectural Studies

Through the close reading of Epitre aux lecteurs in Le Premier tome de I'Architecture, I aim at composing De l'Orme's view of Cosmos systematically, in the light of Hermetism and Pythagoreanism, and explicating logical relations between Cosmos and Architecture. His image of Cosmos consists of God, Celestial world, and Terrestrial world. Celestial world is a orderly body under numeral proportions. This order is intelligible and sensible, and also it is paradigm for things in Terrestrial world. Things, including buildings, have to resemble the order of Celestial world. The sign of this resemblance is sacred number 7.