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 155
... consciousness , and each descend- ing floor representing more obscure , perhaps prior , states of consciousness . Each layer of consciousness became progressively darker . The cave was the level of consciousness of the chthonic and ...
... consciousness , and each descend- ing floor representing more obscure , perhaps prior , states of consciousness . Each layer of consciousness became progressively darker . The cave was the level of consciousness of the chthonic and ...
Page 182
... consciousness and lie bound between the culture's shaping forces and the maturation of the sense organs that occurs at a preverbal stage . The origins of perception as sensate experience and signifying structure are within the body as ...
... consciousness and lie bound between the culture's shaping forces and the maturation of the sense organs that occurs at a preverbal stage . The origins of perception as sensate experience and signifying structure are within the body as ...
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... consciousness system conceived by Freud as a model rep- resenting " a number of layers , permeable to something analogous to light whose refraction changes from layer to layer , " ( p . 45 ) , as described in The Four Fundamental ...
... consciousness system conceived by Freud as a model rep- resenting " a number of layers , permeable to something analogous to light whose refraction changes from layer to layer , " ( p . 45 ) , as described in The Four Fundamental ...
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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