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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... columns : seven rows of nine columns on either side of a double row of six columns , minus four columns in the corners . Nine is the number of the Ennead , the group of gods representing the process of creation . The number nine always ...
... columns : seven rows of nine columns on either side of a double row of six columns , minus four columns in the corners . Nine is the number of the Ennead , the group of gods representing the process of creation . The number nine always ...
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... columns , or stand next to the architectural columns , in what is called a " twin pillar shrine . " The gods are the pillars of their own shrines . In one relief , the pediment of the shrine is adorned with the swan's egg of Leda ...
... columns , or stand next to the architectural columns , in what is called a " twin pillar shrine . " The gods are the pillars of their own shrines . In one relief , the pediment of the shrine is adorned with the swan's egg of Leda ...
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... columns and lintel . The death and rebirth of the king was celebrated in festivals in the Fall and Spring . The Toreador Fresco ( Figure 3 ) in the Palace of Minos at Knossos , from around 1500 BCE , is framed by the same column ...
... columns and lintel . The death and rebirth of the king was celebrated in festivals in the Fall and Spring . The Toreador Fresco ( Figure 3 ) in the Palace of Minos at Knossos , from around 1500 BCE , is framed by the same column ...
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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