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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... light , " Chefren means " the appearance of divine light , ” and Mykerinos means " the constant power of divine light . ' The rays of the sun , the object of worship , are often pictured as rays of light in a triangle , a triangle of ...
... light , " Chefren means " the appearance of divine light , ” and Mykerinos means " the constant power of divine light . ' The rays of the sun , the object of worship , are often pictured as rays of light in a triangle , a triangle of ...
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... light emanating from the lantern of the church into the wor- ship space , making visible the idea of the divine . In ... light projected by the sun emanate in the form of the cone of a pyramid if they pass through a small hole in a wall ...
... light emanating from the lantern of the church into the wor- ship space , making visible the idea of the divine . In ... light projected by the sun emanate in the form of the cone of a pyramid if they pass through a small hole in a wall ...
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... light and opacity participating in the ambiguity of a jewel . It is the diffusion and refraction of light in non - geometral space . “ It is not in the straight line , but in the point of light - the point of irradiation , the play of ...
... light and opacity participating in the ambiguity of a jewel . It is the diffusion and refraction of light in non - geometral space . “ It is not in the straight line , but in the point of light - the point of irradiation , the play of ...
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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