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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... exist in the way we think or , even more disturbingly , that it may not exist at all . Lord Llewellyn Davies , for instance , strongly repudiated the idea of there being such a thing as ' the theory of architecture ' ( Whiffen 1965 : 3 ) ...
... exist in the way we think or , even more disturbingly , that it may not exist at all . Lord Llewellyn Davies , for instance , strongly repudiated the idea of there being such a thing as ' the theory of architecture ' ( Whiffen 1965 : 3 ) ...
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... exist between theory and practice ( and there are many ) are no different from the relationships between any form of ... exists ) and a discourse that is itself a practice and is therefore consequential to the extent that it is ...
... exist between theory and practice ( and there are many ) are no different from the relationships between any form of ... exists ) and a discourse that is itself a practice and is therefore consequential to the extent that it is ...
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... exist . Only a work of architecture exists . Architecture does exist in the mind . A man who does a work of architecture does it as an offering to the spirit of architecture . . . a spirit which knows no style , knows no technique , no ...
... exist . Only a work of architecture exists . Architecture does exist in the mind . A man who does a work of architecture does it as an offering to the spirit of architecture . . . a spirit which knows no style , knows no technique , no ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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