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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... Mathematical and geometrical constructions , like mythological allegories , are images of knowledge , representing the structure of collective thought . Architecture is an image of knowledge . The mathematical and geometrical symbolism ...
... Mathematical and geometrical constructions , like mythological allegories , are images of knowledge , representing the structure of collective thought . Architecture is an image of knowledge . The mathematical and geometrical symbolism ...
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... mathematics . Mathematical symbols are similitudes of material things , " and in order to ascend to the highest simplicity , we must use finite mathematical figures , corresponding in transference to infinite figures , transforming ...
... mathematics . Mathematical symbols are similitudes of material things , " and in order to ascend to the highest simplicity , we must use finite mathematical figures , corresponding in transference to infinite figures , transforming ...
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... mathematical and numerological relations and proportions found in the natural universe are manifestations of the instrument of God , of the universal and divine intellect : " God created in the Holy Spirit , which was seen , counted and ...
... mathematical and numerological relations and proportions found in the natural universe are manifestations of the instrument of God , of the universal and divine intellect : " God created in the Holy Spirit , which was seen , counted and ...
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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