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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... walls , the Greco - Roman substitute for the pylon . The screen walls were built by the Roman emperors Tiberius , Claudius and Vespasian . The perfectly preserved hypostyle hall is the only remaining part of a temple complex that was ...
... walls , the Greco - Roman substitute for the pylon . The screen walls were built by the Roman emperors Tiberius , Claudius and Vespasian . The perfectly preserved hypostyle hall is the only remaining part of a temple complex that was ...
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... walls , I discovered layers of brick among the ordinary stone blocks , and chips of brick in the mortar . As soon as I saw this I knew that the walls dated from Roman times . My interest was by now intense . I looked more closely at the ...
... walls , I discovered layers of brick among the ordinary stone blocks , and chips of brick in the mortar . As soon as I saw this I knew that the walls dated from Roman times . My interest was by now intense . I looked more closely at the ...
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... walls are covered in draperies , as in the House of Usher , which are continually agitated by some mysterious agency , calling to mind the walls of the chamber above the subterranean Pal- ace of Istakar in Caliph Vathek , which " were ...
... walls are covered in draperies , as in the House of Usher , which are continually agitated by some mysterious agency , calling to mind the walls of the chamber above the subterranean Pal- ace of Istakar in Caliph Vathek , which " were ...
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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