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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... things and lower than wisdom . It turns toward higher things and to social and communal things . Love desires beauty and goodness , and through beauty love is found and realized . The force of love flows through unity to multiplicity ...
... things and lower than wisdom . It turns toward higher things and to social and communal things . Love desires beauty and goodness , and through beauty love is found and realized . The force of love flows through unity to multiplicity ...
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... things are cre- ated . ,, 111 The intersecting pyramids illustrate a pseudo - scientific theory of vision and light in the Primitiae Gnomonicae Catopticae . One pyramid is formed with the apex at a point on the surface of visible things ...
... things are cre- ated . ,, 111 The intersecting pyramids illustrate a pseudo - scientific theory of vision and light in the Primitiae Gnomonicae Catopticae . One pyramid is formed with the apex at a point on the surface of visible things ...
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... things and is comprehended by all things ; in no other way is it pos- sible to consider the threefold sun of the understanding : firstly as the essence of the divine ; secondly as the substance of the universe , which is the reflection ...
... things and is comprehended by all things ; in no other way is it pos- sible to consider the threefold sun of the understanding : firstly as the essence of the divine ; secondly as the substance of the universe , which is the reflection ...
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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