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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... seen as a mani- festation of the worship of natural forces , and as playing a role in the transi- tion from cosmology to mythology to philosophy . Architecture is seen in relation to language , in particular embryological terms which ...
... seen as a mani- festation of the worship of natural forces , and as playing a role in the transi- tion from cosmology to mythology to philosophy . Architecture is seen in relation to language , in particular embryological terms which ...
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... seen as stable when it is abstracted through 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 ...
... seen as stable when it is abstracted through 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 ...
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... seen as in a mirror by the senses , and Gottfried Leibniz described minds and souls as " living mirrors or images of the universe of created things . ,, 6 According to Giordano Bruno , in Lampas trigenta statuarum , the soul of the ...
... seen as in a mirror by the senses , and Gottfried Leibniz described minds and souls as " living mirrors or images of the universe of created things . ,, 6 According to Giordano Bruno , in Lampas trigenta statuarum , the soul of 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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