Theorist

Yve-Alain Bois

1952–present French/American art history; modernism, formal analysis

Representation Sign Knowledge

Details

Nationality: French-American

Notes

Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Author of Painting as Model (1990) and the seminal essay on axonometry in the inaugural issue of Daidalos (1981).

Connections

proposed Anti-perspective: the oblique/parallel-projective worldview
authored Metamorphosis of Axonometry

Sources

Yve-Alain Bois. Metamorphosis of Axonometry. 1981.

Cite this entry

First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Yve-Alain Bois." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/yve-alain-bois/. Accessed July 17, 2026.