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 of multiplicity out of unity was symbolized by the serpent and seen as an intellectual process . The process of creation is contained as a microcosm in the process of thinking ; human activities are shadows of divine or ...
... creation of multiplicity out of unity was symbolized by the serpent and seen as an intellectual process . The process of creation is contained as a microcosm in the process of thinking ; human activities are shadows of divine or ...
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... creation . Thus the fi- nal shape is composed of multiple symbolism in its unitary form.23 In Cusa- nus the process of knowledge , represented by multiple forms , corresponds to divine creation , represented by unitary form , though the ...
... creation . Thus the fi- nal shape is composed of multiple symbolism in its unitary form.23 In Cusa- nus the process of knowledge , represented by multiple forms , corresponds to divine creation , represented by unitary form , though the ...
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... creation , contains the necessary opposite forces of creation , represented by the intersecting tri- angles . The necessary opposite forces of creation are added to the unity to produce the trinity , the most basic composition of the ...
... creation , contains the necessary opposite forces of creation , represented by the intersecting tri- angles . The necessary opposite forces of creation are added to the unity to produce the trinity , the most basic composition of the ...
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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