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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... knowledge developed in ancient cultures , architecture served as an instrument in the de- velopment of the knowledge , as visual and spatial representation of ideas , of ways of conceiving life and the universe , and as demonstration ...
... knowledge developed in ancient cultures , architecture served as an instrument in the de- velopment of the knowledge , as visual and spatial representation of ideas , of ways of conceiving life and the universe , and as demonstration ...
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... knowledge are archetypes of present - day ele- ments of knowledge , forms of conceptualization and structures of thought , which are represented in the architecture . Analysis of the architecture of An- cient Egypt provides insight into ...
... knowledge are archetypes of present - day ele- ments of knowledge , forms of conceptualization and structures of thought , which are represented in the architecture . Analysis of the architecture of An- cient Egypt provides insight into ...
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... knowledge is subsumed in sensation and apprehension , and rational knowledge is rejected in order to achieve mystical transcen- dence , as in the Neoplatonic tradition of the via negativa of Pseudo- Dionysius and Nicolas Cusanus , whom ...
... knowledge is subsumed in sensation and apprehension , and rational knowledge is rejected in order to achieve mystical transcen- dence , as in the Neoplatonic tradition of the via negativa of Pseudo- Dionysius and Nicolas Cusanus , whom ...
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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