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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... creation . The physical functions of the body are also manifestations of cosmic functions . Man represents the created images of all creation , as an image of God , or the creative force . The pyramids at Giza are located on the west ...
... creation . The physical functions of the body are also manifestations of cosmic functions . Man represents the created images of all creation , as an image of God , or the creative force . The pyramids at Giza are located on the west ...
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... created anew and becomes material.28 Forms are created from preconceptions as by the in- strument of a skilled artisan , modulated in series of preconceived universal order , 29 numbers and hierarchies . Substance takes form in the ...
... created anew and becomes material.28 Forms are created from preconceptions as by the in- strument of a skilled artisan , modulated in series of preconceived universal order , 29 numbers and hierarchies . Substance takes form in the ...
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... creation becomes our mind in the production of numbers . The Divine Mind divides everything , as our mind discerns eve ... created , extended , divided , and measured in intervals . The progression from the point to the cube entails a ...
... creation becomes our mind in the production of numbers . The Divine Mind divides everything , as our mind discerns eve ... created , extended , divided , and measured in intervals . The progression from the point to the cube entails 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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