The Theory of Architecture: Concepts, Themes & PracticesThis jargon-free guide to design and architecture theory helps professionals engage in the discourse of where and what architecture is, and has been. |
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... Latin profiteri ( declare aloud publicly ) and the root fateri ( confess ) . As an entity , a profession is an occupation in which there is a public declaration of skill , learning , and expertise being offered to and involving the ...
... Latin profiteri ( declare aloud publicly ) and the root fateri ( confess ) . As an entity , a profession is an occupation in which there is a public declaration of skill , learning , and expertise being offered to and involving the ...
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... Latin idea in the Platonic sense and adapted from the same in Greek , look , semblance , form , kind , nature , ideal form , or model . For Plato , idea ( or Idea , capitalized to identify the Platonic version ) is equivalent to eidos ...
... Latin idea in the Platonic sense and adapted from the same in Greek , look , semblance , form , kind , nature , ideal form , or model . For Plato , idea ( or Idea , capitalized to identify the Platonic version ) is equivalent to eidos ...
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... Latin dividere , part or force asunder , the root of which ( vid- ) relates to the Greek eidon , see , as in the opening of the Fracture and fraction stem from the Latin frangere , break , the Christian variant of which is fractio , the ...
... Latin dividere , part or force asunder , the root of which ( vid- ) relates to the Greek eidon , see , as in the opening of the Fracture and fraction stem from the Latin frangere , break , the Christian variant of which is fractio , the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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