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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... represented and demonstrated geometrically and mathematically . Ancient architecture , then , as a geometrical and mathematic construction , represents and demon- strates empirically perceived occurences in the world in the same way ...
... represented and demonstrated geometrically and mathematically . Ancient architecture , then , as a geometrical and mathematic construction , represents and demon- strates empirically perceived occurences in the world in the same way ...
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... represented the four corners of the universe . The " four pillars of heaven " represent the support at the four ... represented by Zeus ' victory over the Titans , represented on the pediment . The Titans are sent to the realm of ...
... represented the four corners of the universe . The " four pillars of heaven " represent the support at the four ... represented by Zeus ' victory over the Titans , represented on the pediment . The Titans are sent to the realm of ...
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... represented by Raffaello Sanzio in the Cappella Chigi in Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome in 1620. God the Demiurge sits in the apex of the chapel , and his creation , represented by the planets , is born by angels to earth through the ...
... represented by Raffaello Sanzio in the Cappella Chigi in Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome in 1620. God the Demiurge sits in the apex of the chapel , and his creation , represented by the planets , is born by angels to earth through the ...
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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