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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... Church , which also sought to broaden the bases of Christian theol- ogy and to establish itself as the culmination of all religions . Syncretism be- came a strategy in the art and architecture produced during the Counter- Reformation ...
... Church , which also sought to broaden the bases of Christian theol- ogy and to establish itself as the culmination of all religions . Syncretism be- came a strategy in the art and architecture produced during the Counter- Reformation ...
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... Church of Santa Chiara at Bra of 1742 , where the cupola rises from piers behind which are balconies and apses emitting light , further differentiating the spaces of the church , and fur- ther separating the cupola , the material ...
... Church of Santa Chiara at Bra of 1742 , where the cupola rises from piers behind which are balconies and apses emitting light , further differentiating the spaces of the church , and fur- ther separating the cupola , the material ...
Page 101
... Church of the Assumption at Grignasco begun in 1750 , takes on the form of a crystalline organism as a centralized congrega- tion of convex aediculae forming a simple hexagonal cupola illuminated by openings above the arches . The ...
... Church of the Assumption at Grignasco begun in 1750 , takes on the form of a crystalline organism as a centralized congrega- tion of convex aediculae forming a simple hexagonal cupola illuminated by openings above the arches . 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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