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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... gods were worshipped , as representing the mysteri- ous forces of the universe , but they were yet to be personified as the Olympian pantheon . The gods of the archaic cultures were personified in dif- ferent forms , and they were also ...
... gods were worshipped , as representing the mysteri- ous forces of the universe , but they were yet to be personified as the Olympian pantheon . The gods of the archaic cultures were personified in dif- ferent forms , and they were also ...
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... gods as well as stone pillars and wood columns . The stone slab was called a theos , like the stone pillar , to define the god in the act of placing . A herm is a stone slab named after the god Hermes . In mythology , the slab ...
... gods as well as stone pillars and wood columns . The stone slab was called a theos , like the stone pillar , to define the god in the act of placing . A herm is a stone slab named after the god Hermes . In mythology , the slab ...
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... gods of chaos . The world is ordered into the earth , the firm seat of humans , with the floor of the temple supporting columns as trees , and the heavens , the firm seat of the Olympian gods , supported by the roof and pediment . In ...
... gods of chaos . The world is ordered into the earth , the firm seat of humans , with the floor of the temple supporting columns as trees , and the heavens , the firm seat of the Olympian gods , supported by the roof and pediment . In ...
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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