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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These last elements can undergo an analysis according to the linguistic patterns
we tried to define, but cannot by any means, be reduced to schemes typical only
for the verbal language . . ." (Structuralism and Semiology in Architecture; cited ...
These last elements can undergo an analysis according to the linguistic patterns
we tried to define, but cannot by any means, be reduced to schemes typical only
for the verbal language . . ." (Structuralism and Semiology in Architecture; cited ...
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taken away the composition disintegrates The secondary ones, instead, may be
treated with a relatively high degree of freedom, though care must be taken that
they do not interfere with the primary elements. Christian Norberg-Schulz.
taken away the composition disintegrates The secondary ones, instead, may be
treated with a relatively high degree of freedom, though care must be taken that
they do not interfere with the primary elements. Christian Norberg-Schulz.
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In coming to position, the same terms are implicated although they are not used
in connection with the central T, but in the connection (or not) elements have with
one another. The Czech-born historian Paul Frankl (1914) attempted to create a ...
In coming to position, the same terms are implicated although they are not used
in connection with the central T, but in the connection (or not) elements have with
one another. The Czech-born historian Paul Frankl (1914) attempted to create a ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THEORETICAL POSITIONS | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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| Title | The Theory of Architecture: Concepts, Themes & Practices |
| Author | Paul Alan Johnson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0442013442, 9780442013448 |
| Length | 486 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / General Architecture / History / General Architecture / Reference |
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