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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... circle , based on the radius of the circle , for the pur- poses of designing the plan of a church : For many - sided plans , the ancients would use six , eight , or even ten angles . The cor- ners of all such plans must be circumscribed ...
... circle , based on the radius of the circle , for the pur- poses of designing the plan of a church : For many - sided plans , the ancients would use six , eight , or even ten angles . The cor- ners of all such plans must be circumscribed ...
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... circle revolving within another circle , to represent the perpetual revolution of the Same and the Other , or in more concrete terms , the equator and the ecliptic containing the seven planets . Such a construction can be seen in a ...
... circle revolving within another circle , to represent the perpetual revolution of the Same and the Other , or in more concrete terms , the equator and the ecliptic containing the seven planets . Such a construction can be seen in a ...
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... circle , all such measurement disappears in the circle , which contains no angles and no sides , and is thus ultimately separate from and inaccessible to that which ascends from it and descends to it , as God is to material reality ...
... circle , all such measurement disappears in the circle , which contains no angles and no sides , and is thus ultimately separate from and inaccessible to that which ascends from it and descends to it , as God is to material reality ...
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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