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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... Cusanus was appointed Cardinal by Pope Nicholas V in Rome in 1450. Cusanus ' closest friend was Paolo Toscanelli , the mathematician and astronomer who was also a close friend of Leon Battista Alberti . The ideas of Cusanus and Alberti ...
... Cusanus was appointed Cardinal by Pope Nicholas V in Rome in 1450. Cusanus ' closest friend was Paolo Toscanelli , the mathematician and astronomer who was also a close friend of Leon Battista Alberti . The ideas of Cusanus and Alberti ...
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... Cusanus . The De coniecturis of Cusanus was well known to Athanasius Kircher , who copied passages from it in his own writing . It was written between 1440 and 1445 as a sequel to the major theoretical work of Cusanus , De docta ...
... Cusanus . The De coniecturis of Cusanus was well known to Athanasius Kircher , who copied passages from it in his own writing . It was written between 1440 and 1445 as a sequel to the major theoretical work of Cusanus , De docta ...
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... Cusanus . The juxtapositions of the forms in the pattern in the cupola correspond to the manifestation of the intellect in material crea- tion between the light and darkness of the intersecting triangles . The inter- weaving of the ...
... Cusanus . The juxtapositions of the forms in the pattern in the cupola correspond to the manifestation of the intellect in material crea- tion between the light and darkness of the intersecting triangles . The inter- weaving of the ...
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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