Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures

• Author(s): John Shannon Hendrix,
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Pages: 276
• ISBN_10: 082046726X
  ISBN_13: 9780820467269
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / General , Architecture / Criticism , Art / General , Art / Criticism & Theory , Philosophy / General , Philosophy / Aesthetics ,

Description:... 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.