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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... Function and the Formal Demands of Architecture but It seems to me then , that you do not speak of [ a breastplate ] well shaped in an absolute sense , only in regard to its function . Socrates . In Xenophon . Recollections of Socrates ...
... Function and the Formal Demands of Architecture but It seems to me then , that you do not speak of [ a breastplate ] well shaped in an absolute sense , only in regard to its function . Socrates . In Xenophon . Recollections of Socrates ...
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... functional notions have been current from the eighteenth century . The Franciscan friar Carlo Lodoli ( 1690-1761 ) coined the expression organic architecture and elaborated upon the idea of function in his teachings . It was from Lodoli ...
... functional notions have been current from the eighteenth century . The Franciscan friar Carlo Lodoli ( 1690-1761 ) coined the expression organic architecture and elaborated upon the idea of function in his teachings . It was from Lodoli ...
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... function now ' constrains ' repertoire's formal elements . This is not gobbledygook ; it is the real thing , and needs to be taken seriously because design science of the computerized kind is one area of architecture that is commanding ...
... function now ' constrains ' repertoire's formal elements . This is not gobbledygook ; it is the real thing , and needs to be taken seriously because design science of the computerized kind is one area of architecture that is commanding ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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