Optical measures: A design tool to attain truth or illusion?

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dc.contributor.authorSoyöz, Ufuk
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-15T12:37:43Z
dc.date.available2021-05-15T12:37:43Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentMühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi, İç Mimarlık ve Çevre Tasarımı Bölümüen_US
dc.descriptionSoyoz, Ufuk/0000-0001-9550-5279
dc.description.abstractThe optical measures have often been explained within the conceptual framework provided by Vitruvius: the "true" symmetries are distorted by space. Hence they have to be corrected by optical measures under the "real" conditions of appearance. While scholars have studied the phenomenon of optical measures within a narrowly mathematical framework, the aesthetic implications of Vitruvius' claim, his ambiguous use of the "truth" and "reality" has hardly been noticed. By situating the phenomenon of architectural proportions within the broader aesthetic discourse on Hellenistic art, this paper shall reveal the paradox of discourse between the optical knowledge and professional power of the architect. Rather than being a means to a quintessential truth or reality, the paper shall demonstrate how indeed optical measures were employed as a means to stylistic ends; that the change in the proportions of temple architecture from the Classical to the Hellenistic age predicates a painterly taste.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSamuel Kress Foundation; University of Texas; European CommissionEuropean CommissionEuropean Commission Joint Research Centreen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article grew out of my doctoral dissertation, Drama on the Urban Stage. Architecture, Spectacles and Power in Hellenistic Pergamon (The University of Texas, 2010), written under the advisorship of John R. Clarke and Penelope J. E. Davies. I am glad to be able to acknowledge here an enormous debt of gratitude to them. I extend special thanks to Nexus Network Journal's anonymous reviewers and the participants of Nexus Network Conference 2014 in Ankara who offered many insightful comments for improvement of this paper. I am also grateful to John R. Clarke and Rabun M. Taylor for illustrations. My doctoral research in Hellenistic Asia Minor was funded by a Samuel Kress Foundation Travel Grant and grants from the University of Texas. My current research, including preparation manuscript images (photo-collages by Hasan Gokbora) is funded by a European Commission Marie Curie Career Integration Grant.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00004-015-0256-6
dc.identifier.endpage545en_US
dc.identifier.issn1590-5896
dc.identifier.issn1522-4600
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84937811725
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage525en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-015-0256-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12939/576
dc.identifier.volume17en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000358217400009
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.institutionauthorSoyöz, Ufuk
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherKim Williams Booksen_US
dc.relation.ispartofNexus Network Journal
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectDesignen_US
dc.subjectOptical Measuresen_US
dc.subjectCurvatureen_US
dc.subjectEntasisen_US
dc.subjectProportional Designen_US
dc.titleOptical measures: A design tool to attain truth or illusion?
dc.typeArticle

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