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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Page 101
... Neoplatonic hierarchies of the corporeal world of nature and body , the realm of the mind and soul , and the realm of the divine . The interior of the Church of San Michele at Borgo d'Ale of 1770 takes the form of a crystalline organism ...
... Neoplatonic hierarchies of the corporeal world of nature and body , the realm of the mind and soul , and the realm of the divine . The interior of the Church of San Michele at Borgo d'Ale of 1770 takes the form of a crystalline organism ...
Page 112
... Neoplatonic hierarchical conception and adding differential transformations . " A multi - spherical constitutive scheme of op- erations is necessary to serve as a mechanism of the initial construction of the universe and its subsequent ...
... Neoplatonic hierarchical conception and adding differential transformations . " A multi - spherical constitutive scheme of op- erations is necessary to serve as a mechanism of the initial construction of the universe and its subsequent ...
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... Neoplatonic scheme , " It is endowed with shape , movement and even existence only in so far as it ceases to be itself and enters a union with form , so as to contribute to the realm of nature . ' The distinction between matter and form ...
... Neoplatonic scheme , " It is endowed with shape , movement and even existence only in so far as it ceases to be itself and enters a union with form , so as to contribute to the realm of nature . ' The distinction between matter and form ...
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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