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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... spirit and matter . On the interior of the chapel the Octoade , in the form of eight baboons , surround a scarab beetle , symbol of eternal spirit and the solar disk , or the course of the sun . The Octoade were the four pairs of ...
... spirit and matter . On the interior of the chapel the Octoade , in the form of eight baboons , surround a scarab beetle , symbol of eternal spirit and the solar disk , or the course of the sun . The Octoade were the four pairs of ...
Page 69
... spirit of God , who has supplied the archetypes for the creation of the world . " In Microcosmic History , Robert Fludd equates the celestial hierar- chies of body , soul and spirit to geometrical figures . Spirit and matter are both ...
... spirit of God , who has supplied the archetypes for the creation of the world . " In Microcosmic History , Robert Fludd equates the celestial hierar- chies of body , soul and spirit to geometrical figures . Spirit and matter are both ...
Page 147
... spirit of the artist , as the animated forms are seen to grow from the spirit . The forms of the work of art , originat- ing from forms in the mind of the artist , are transferred to the mind of the viewer , through the psychological ...
... spirit of the artist , as the animated forms are seen to grow from the spirit . The forms of the work of art , originat- ing from forms in the mind of the artist , are transferred to the mind of the viewer , through the psychological ...
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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