1000 Years of World Architecture: An Illustrated GuideThis volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends. |
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Page 142
... symbolic programme evoking Pentecost . The continuity of the modulations that wrap the outer body was a novelty ; it ... symbolism expressed in solid reality Theoretical speculations concerning the ideal form of the central - plan church ...
... symbolic programme evoking Pentecost . The continuity of the modulations that wrap the outer body was a novelty ; it ... symbolism expressed in solid reality Theoretical speculations concerning the ideal form of the central - plan church ...
Page 236
... symbolic of the new order of the state . The park's arrangement and its iconographic themes interpret the symbolic meaning of royal order in the world . The route , which includes various stops at special vantage points , crosses the ...
... symbolic of the new order of the state . The park's arrangement and its iconographic themes interpret the symbolic meaning of royal order in the world . The route , which includes various stops at special vantage points , crosses the ...
Page 246
... symbolic geometries and sym- metrical divisions . Without doubt , the rolling hills of the English landscape were the departure point for this revo- lution , at the base of which is the desire to return to a pri- mal nature ...
... symbolic geometries and sym- metrical divisions . Without doubt , the rolling hills of the English landscape were the departure point for this revo- lution , at the base of which is the desire to return to a pri- mal nature ...
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