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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... existence is capable . Albert Camus . 1955 : 32 . - A child's experience is much more individual than the grey uniformity of adult experience . Because there is so much less in it all the things stand out in their difference instead of ...
... existence is capable . Albert Camus . 1955 : 32 . - A child's experience is much more individual than the grey uniformity of adult experience . Because there is so much less in it all the things stand out in their difference instead of ...
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... existence and shape as a thing per se , as something superadded , wrapped around the other thing , as a peirar , " writes Richard Onians ( 1951 : 464 ) ; hence the quotation from Antisthenes above . In short , the concrete informed the ...
... existence and shape as a thing per se , as something superadded , wrapped around the other thing , as a peirar , " writes Richard Onians ( 1951 : 464 ) ; hence the quotation from Antisthenes above . In short , the concrete informed the ...
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... existence in that it was not just the relative degrees between opposites but , as the mean ( neither excess nor deficiency ) pursued by the arts , was essential to their existence and that of the good and the beautiful ( Politicus ...
... existence in that it was not just the relative degrees between opposites but , as the mean ( neither excess nor deficiency ) pursued by the arts , was essential to their existence and that of the good and the beautiful ( Politicus ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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