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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... explain the functioning of the uni- verse . Pythagorean cosmology attempted to explain the structure and form of the universe . The tetractys was the representation of the number ten as a se- ries of dots arranged in a triangle , which ...
... explain the functioning of the uni- verse . Pythagorean cosmology attempted to explain the structure and form of the universe . The tetractys was the representation of the number ten as a se- ries of dots arranged in a triangle , which ...
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... explains that architecture , though it depends on mathematics , is a flatter- ing art , which takes the reasonable position of not wanting to disgust the senses ; though many of its rules follow their own precepts , when their dem ...
... explains that architecture , though it depends on mathematics , is a flatter- ing art , which takes the reasonable position of not wanting to disgust the senses ; though many of its rules follow their own precepts , when their dem ...
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... explains , " The object a names the void of that unattainable sur- plus that sets our desire in motion . " 2 Through the objet a the subject is sepa- rated and alienated from being , as he or she recognizes himself or herself as ...
... explains , " The object a names the void of that unattainable sur- plus that sets our desire in motion . " 2 Through the objet a the subject is sepa- rated and alienated from being , as he or she recognizes himself or herself as ...
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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