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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... goddess is Rhea , the Cretan goddess of the lions , and Earth Mother or fertility goddess . Rhea ( Gaia ) is the Mother of the Gods , and the mother of Zeus . A temple called the Metroon was dedicated to her in Olym- pia in 360 BCE ...
... goddess is Rhea , the Cretan goddess of the lions , and Earth Mother or fertility goddess . Rhea ( Gaia ) is the Mother of the Gods , and the mother of Zeus . A temple called the Metroon was dedicated to her in Olym- pia in 360 BCE ...
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... goddess of animals . She embodies the feminine creative principle , and is also found represented in the forms of the circular altar - pit , symbolizing the omphalos or navel of the world ; the primordial mound altar , symbolizing the ...
... goddess of animals . She embodies the feminine creative principle , and is also found represented in the forms of the circular altar - pit , symbolizing the omphalos or navel of the world ; the primordial mound altar , symbolizing the ...
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... goddess during the Bronze Age , wedded to Zeus , the fertility god and sun king . Solar kings were wedded to moon goddesses in sacred marriage . The twins , as the sun kings , are often represented as a pair of columns holding up a ...
... goddess during the Bronze Age , wedded to Zeus , the fertility god and sun king . Solar kings were wedded to moon goddesses in sacred marriage . The twins , as the sun kings , are often represented as a pair of columns holding up 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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