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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Page 90
... human industry and inventiveness , and above all reveling in and glorifying human control . This was no new age of spiritualism wherein supplication before an Almighty was to apologize and plead the case for human existence , this was naked ...
... human industry and inventiveness , and above all reveling in and glorifying human control . This was no new age of spiritualism wherein supplication before an Almighty was to apologize and plead the case for human existence , this was naked ...
Page 232
... human agency at work , and impossible to know what kind of world that world would be . Trying to comprehend a world free of human comprehension would surely be an act of supreme human arrogance , the kind of supremacy that only gods are ...
... human agency at work , and impossible to know what kind of world that world would be . Trying to comprehend a world free of human comprehension would surely be an act of supreme human arrogance , the kind of supremacy that only gods are ...
Page 363
... human - sized doors to the vast bulk of the building , and why the classical portico is needed to mediate an otherwise insignificant human entrance to a large building . The key to the architectural meaning of scale takes the idea of a ...
... human - sized doors to the vast bulk of the building , and why the classical portico is needed to mediate an otherwise insignificant human entrance to a large building . The key to the architectural meaning of scale takes the idea of a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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