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 145
... sublime and chaos , terror and the unconscious — a reality of unrecognizable composition . Continuing the development of the sublime and terrible in A Philosophi- cal Enquiry , Edmund Burke invokes the effect of obscurity in the ...
... sublime and chaos , terror and the unconscious — a reality of unrecognizable composition . Continuing the development of the sublime and terrible in A Philosophi- cal Enquiry , Edmund Burke invokes the effect of obscurity in the ...
Page 148
... sublime in ar- chitecture : All edifices calculated to produce an idea of the sublime ought rather to be dark and gloomy , and this for two reasons ; the first is , that darkness itself on other occasions is known by experience to have ...
... sublime in ar- chitecture : All edifices calculated to produce an idea of the sublime ought rather to be dark and gloomy , and this for two reasons ; the first is , that darkness itself on other occasions is known by experience to have ...
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... sublime , the mysterious inner world , as a source of the imagination , was expressed by Edward Young in Night Thoughts in 1742 : " Dive deep into thy bosom ; learn the depth , extent , bias and full fort of thy mind ; contract full ...
... sublime , the mysterious inner world , as a source of the imagination , was expressed by Edward Young in Night Thoughts in 1742 : " Dive deep into thy bosom ; learn the depth , extent , bias and full fort of thy mind ; contract full ...
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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