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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... body — there is no beginning and no end to it . The end- less is rather sensuous , more like the female body in contrast to sharp , angled male architecture . Life's rhythms are cyclical . Space in the Endless House is continuous ...
... body — there is no beginning and no end to it . The end- less is rather sensuous , more like the female body in contrast to sharp , angled male architecture . Life's rhythms are cyclical . Space in the Endless House is continuous ...
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John Shannon Hendrix. 12 The Laceration of the Body The human body influences approaches to architectural design in its implica- tion in conceptualization and perception . The autonomous body and the pres- ence of the perceiving subject ...
John Shannon Hendrix. 12 The Laceration of the Body The human body influences approaches to architectural design in its implica- tion in conceptualization and perception . The autonomous body and the pres- ence of the perceiving subject ...
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... body experience . The separation of thought and representation , and internal and external sensation , were eliminated in the nineteenth century by Johannes Müller's theories of nerve sensation , wherein sensation is given to perception ...
... body experience . The separation of thought and representation , and internal and external sensation , were eliminated in the nineteenth century by Johannes Müller's theories of nerve sensation , wherein sensation is given to perception ...
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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