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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Page 109
... inner principle of matter . Matter is the subject of motion or direction , as the architectural forms of Borromini can be seen to be concrete moments subject to the overall force or action of the architecture , in its continual ...
... inner principle of matter . Matter is the subject of motion or direction , as the architectural forms of Borromini can be seen to be concrete moments subject to the overall force or action of the architecture , in its continual ...
Page 120
... inner principle , and all past and future stages are contained within the first stage . The dynamic organism of unfold- ing is analogous to a natural machine driven by an inner principle , such as the body , in the same way that Baroque ...
... inner principle , and all past and future stages are contained within the first stage . The dynamic organism of unfold- ing is analogous to a natural machine driven by an inner principle , such as the body , in the same way that Baroque ...
Page 172
... inner life of vegetable forms , their ani- mism , or inner consciousness . The sentient mind is a vegetable absorbing sunlight for nourishment . The sentience leads to disorganization , the break- down of the architectonic in thought ...
... inner life of vegetable forms , their ani- mism , or inner consciousness . The sentient mind is a vegetable absorbing sunlight for nourishment . The sentience leads to disorganization , the break- down of the architectonic in thought ...
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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