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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... language , I propose to call the myth of the bleating lamb . Rudolf Arnheim . 1966 : 141 . Language , according to Saussure , is fundamentally ( and not by accident or through deprava- tion ) an instrument of communication . One never ...
... language , I propose to call the myth of the bleating lamb . Rudolf Arnheim . 1966 : 141 . Language , according to Saussure , is fundamentally ( and not by accident or through deprava- tion ) an instrument of communication . One never ...
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... language presupposes such cooperation , and unless this can be shown as essential , there seems no need for a language at all ; language has a facilitating agenda , and those who advocate architecture as language may be proselytizing ...
... language presupposes such cooperation , and unless this can be shown as essential , there seems no need for a language at all ; language has a facilitating agenda , and those who advocate architecture as language may be proselytizing ...
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... language utilizing these terms cannot exist for architectural history , criticism , or theory ; obviously it can and it does . It is just that the language of which architecture is supposed to consist does not operate as a critical ...
... language utilizing these terms cannot exist for architectural history , criticism , or theory ; obviously it can and it does . It is just that the language of which architecture is supposed to consist does not operate as a critical ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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