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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 46
Page 47
... forces emerged , such as light and dark , day and night . From these opposite forces , the four elements of the world were formed : air , earth , water and fire . The forces of the elements then produced living beings . These opposing ...
... forces emerged , such as light and dark , day and night . From these opposite forces , the four elements of the world were formed : air , earth , water and fire . The forces of the elements then produced living beings . These opposing ...
Page 48
... forces of nature : the sky , the earth , the sea . The classical temple comes to symbolize the order of the world imposed upon the vanquished gods of chaos . The world is ordered into the earth , the firm seat of humans , with the floor ...
... forces of nature : the sky , the earth , the sea . The classical temple comes to symbolize the order of the world imposed upon the vanquished gods of chaos . The world is ordered into the earth , the firm seat of humans , with the floor ...
Page 109
... force . In the Baroque the coupling of material - force is what replaces matter and form ( the primal forces being those of the soul ) . " 19 Material and force , or substance and movement , are combined as idea and perception in ...
... force . In the Baroque the coupling of material - force is what replaces matter and form ( the primal forces being those of the soul ) . " 19 Material and force , or substance and movement , are combined as idea and perception in ...
Contents
Architecture and Cosmology in Ancient Egypt | 5 |
Architecture and Cosmology in Ancient Greece | 35 |
Francesco Borromini and the Construction of Meaning | 51 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
abstraction Amon Ancient Ancient Egypt architect architectural forms Athanasius Kircher Baroque architecture Bernardo Vittone body Cabinet of Doctor Caillois Carceri Carlo alle Quattro celestial chaos circle columns combination conception consciousness corresponds cosmology created cupola Cusanus darkness described divine Doctor Caligari dream earth Egypt Egyptian elements enacted Endless House Ennead experience Ficino Francesco Borromini Frederick Kiesler Freud geometrical Georges Bataille Gilles Deleuze goddess gods Gothic Guarini Guarino Guarini Hathor heavens Hermes hierarchy Horus human Ibid images infinite inner inscribed Jacques Lacan Kiesler Kircher labyrinth Lacan laceration lantern Leibniz light manifest material mathematical mind monad Monadology multiplicity nature Neoplatonic Osiris perception perspectival construction philosophical Piranesi Plato primordial principle process of creation psychophysiological space pyramid Quattro Fontane rational reality realm relation representation represented Rome sensation signifying structure soul spatial sublime substance symbol temple tetractys thought tion transgression triangles unconscious unity universe Vathek Visions of Excess visual Vittone