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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... artistic experience by artist and public ; that arising out of literary criticism and con- cerned with style ; and that of the marvelous and magical qualities of art ( 1974 : 9–12 ) . A similar structuring of architectural thought would ...
... artistic experience by artist and public ; that arising out of literary criticism and con- cerned with style ; and that of the marvelous and magical qualities of art ( 1974 : 9–12 ) . A similar structuring of architectural thought would ...
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... Artist and Poet Great art ... is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men . John Ruskin . 1843-1860 . Modern Painters . ... cast away as worthless the shopworn and empirical notion that an architect is an artist ...
... Artist and Poet Great art ... is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men . John Ruskin . 1843-1860 . Modern Painters . ... cast away as worthless the shopworn and empirical notion that an architect is an artist ...
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... artist can have . Philip Johnson . Cited in Games 1985 . TRACE Artistry is one term that is impossible to define , but some of its characteristics are easier . One is the concept of ' spirit ' or genius , which has already been used ...
... artist can have . Philip Johnson . Cited in Games 1985 . TRACE Artistry is one term that is impossible to define , but some of its characteristics are easier . One is the concept of ' spirit ' or genius , which has already been used ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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