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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... reflected the strength of the Mycenaean civilization , which domi- nated Greece during the Late Bronze Age , from 1700 to 1200 BCE . The pil- lar is tapered like the human body and the herm , the post symbolizing the god Hermes ...
... reflected the strength of the Mycenaean civilization , which domi- nated Greece during the Late Bronze Age , from 1700 to 1200 BCE . The pil- lar is tapered like the human body and the herm , the post symbolizing the god Hermes ...
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... reflected body , perceived as a point on a surface , at which point the two pyramids intersect . Divine light is reflected to form images of matter which are imperfect simulacrae of original archetypes , as represented in frescoes from ...
... reflected body , perceived as a point on a surface , at which point the two pyramids intersect . Divine light is reflected to form images of matter which are imperfect simulacrae of original archetypes , as represented in frescoes from ...
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... reflected subject , the distorted similitude of God , or the idea in reason : If there be one single sun and one single whole mirror , we are able to contemplate that unique sun in that mirror . If the mirror is broken and multiplied in ...
... reflected subject , the distorted similitude of God , or the idea in reason : If there be one single sun and one single whole mirror , we are able to contemplate that unique sun in that mirror . If the mirror is broken and multiplied 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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