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 43
... corresponds to the Orphic Night , the gonimon corresponds to the egg , hot and cold ( sun and earth ) correspond to heaven and earth , and living creatures correspond to the gods . A common motif in the decoration of the classical cylix ...
... corresponds to the Orphic Night , the gonimon corresponds to the egg , hot and cold ( sun and earth ) correspond to heaven and earth , and living creatures correspond to the gods . A common motif in the decoration of the classical cylix ...
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... corresponds to the highest level of God in his simplicity and unity in the geometrical and nu- merical hierarchy of Cusanus . The juxtapositions of the forms in the pattern in the cupola correspond to the manifestation of the intellect ...
... corresponds to the highest level of God in his simplicity and unity in the geometrical and nu- merical hierarchy of Cusanus . The juxtapositions of the forms in the pattern in the cupola correspond to the manifestation of the intellect ...
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... correspond two calculations - or two aspects of the calculus that , even if they are inseparable , must be distinguished ... corresponds to a theological universe , in a hierarchical progression . Borromini's architecture constitutes a ...
... correspond two calculations - or two aspects of the calculus that , even if they are inseparable , must be distinguished ... corresponds to a theological universe , in a hierarchical progression . Borromini's architecture constitutes a ...
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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