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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... Gothic romance is a narrative of dream , nightmare , and the uncon- scious , and the breaking of boundaries , the ... Gothic romance , and normally suppressed thoughts and perceptions are brought to the surface , as the scope of ...
... Gothic romance is a narrative of dream , nightmare , and the uncon- scious , and the breaking of boundaries , the ... Gothic romance , and normally suppressed thoughts and perceptions are brought to the surface , as the scope of ...
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... Gothic romance celebrates the grotesque and repulsive as opposed to order and proportion , intensification and exaggeration as opposed to the normal and reassuring . The decay , irregularity and incompleteness can be re- lated to a ...
... Gothic romance celebrates the grotesque and repulsive as opposed to order and proportion , intensification and exaggeration as opposed to the normal and reassuring . The decay , irregularity and incompleteness can be re- lated to a ...
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... Gothic ornamentation to an interior orientation , toward the " psychological recesses of the mind , ” 28 and the " remote secrets of the unconscious . " The immensity of the overall proportions and the verticality of the structure are ...
... Gothic ornamentation to an interior orientation , toward the " psychological recesses of the mind , ” 28 and the " remote secrets of the unconscious . " The immensity of the overall proportions and the verticality of the structure are ...
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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