Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures

Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures
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Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages : 296
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Download or read book Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures written by John Shannon Hendrix and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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