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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... death ( winter ) . The twin - pillar shrine is thus an enactment of the cycle of birth , death and rebirth of the kings , in the egg , the serpent , and the threshold formed by the columns and lintel . The death and rebirth of the king ...
... death ( winter ) . The twin - pillar shrine is thus an enactment of the cycle of birth , death and rebirth of the kings , in the egg , the serpent , and the threshold formed by the columns and lintel . The death and rebirth of the king ...
Page 162
... death and extinc- tion , evoking fear and terror in the face of the unknown , as well as pleasure and ecstasy in the force of the death drive . The ruin invokes irregularity , in- completion and disease , perhaps being rotten and ...
... death and extinc- tion , evoking fear and terror in the face of the unknown , as well as pleasure and ecstasy in the force of the death drive . The ruin invokes irregularity , in- completion and disease , perhaps being rotten and ...
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... death instincts . The death instinct is " at work in every living creature and is striving to bring it to ruin and reduce life to its original condition of inanimate matter , in the words of Donald C. Abel , as in entropy . Wilhelm ...
... death instincts . The death instinct is " at work in every living creature and is striving to bring it to ruin and reduce life to its original condition of inanimate matter , in the words of Donald C. Abel , as in entropy . Wilhelm ...
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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