Architectural Forms and Philosophical StructuresPeter Lang, 2003 - 276 pages Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures examines architectural and architectonic forms as products of philosophical and epistemological structures in selected cultures and time periods, and analyzes architecture as a text of its culture. Relations between architectural forms and philosophical structures are explored in Western civilization, beginning in Egypt and Greece and culminating in twentieth-century Europe and America. Architecture, like all forms of artistic expression, is interwoven with the beliefs and the structures of knowledge of its culture. |
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... Athanasius Kircher , who recircu- lated diagrams originally published by Cusanus in his own publications in the seventeenth century . Kircher was a prominent Jesuit scholar in seven- teenth - century Rome with whom Borromini probably ...
... Athanasius Kircher , who recircu- lated diagrams originally published by Cusanus in his own publications in the seventeenth century . Kircher was a prominent Jesuit scholar in seven- teenth - century Rome with whom Borromini probably ...
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... Kircher has the means of intervening , in a more direct manner than his predecessors , into the field of art and ... Athanasius Kircher . " Borromini was a high - profile figure in Rome at the same time . There are enough facts to ...
... Kircher has the means of intervening , in a more direct manner than his predecessors , into the field of art and ... Athanasius Kircher . " Borromini was a high - profile figure in Rome at the same time . There are enough facts to ...
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... Athanasius Kircher describes numerical divisions as similitudes of divisions in substance from the divine mind . " Referring to Cu- sanus , Kircher describes the Monad as the first principle of all numbers , from which all numbers flow ...
... Athanasius Kircher describes numerical divisions as similitudes of divisions in substance from the divine mind . " Referring to Cu- sanus , Kircher describes the Monad as the first principle of all numbers , from which all numbers flow ...
Contents
Architecture and Cosmology in Ancient Egypt | 5 |
Architecture and Cosmology in Ancient Greece | 35 |
Francesco Borromini and the Construction of Meaning | 51 |
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