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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Page 133
... sensation in the experience of the complex and mysterious , as in the presence of God . The juxtapositions and dissolution of forms themselves force the viewer to resort to responses governed by sensation and emotion . The ecstatic ...
... sensation in the experience of the complex and mysterious , as in the presence of God . The juxtapositions and dissolution of forms themselves force the viewer to resort to responses governed by sensation and emotion . The ecstatic ...
Page 147
... sensation and apprehension . Animism involves the doctrine that the imma- terial soul is a vital principle in organic development ; material forms of real- ity , natural forms , are attributed a conscious life and indwelling spirit ...
... sensation and apprehension . Animism involves the doctrine that the imma- terial soul is a vital principle in organic development ; material forms of real- ity , natural forms , are attributed a conscious life and indwelling spirit ...
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... sensation , wherein sensation is given to perception without coherence , and requires cognitive operations in order to be processed . In the Treatise on Physiological Optics , Hermann von Helmholtz saw perception as a learned process of ...
... sensation , wherein sensation is given to perception without coherence , and requires cognitive operations in order to be processed . In the Treatise on Physiological Optics , Hermann von Helmholtz saw perception as a learned process 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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