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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... relation between theory and practice in Eisenman's work , which I find to be problem- atic in some respects , and had then , perhaps , gone on to ask in what way is it possible to conceive of an architecture of negation , pure and ...
... relation between theory and practice in Eisenman's work , which I find to be problem- atic in some respects , and had then , perhaps , gone on to ask in what way is it possible to conceive of an architecture of negation , pure and ...
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... relation it bears to something else " but concluded that " the essence of a thing— what it is in itself — is by its very nature prior to any relation it may have . . . . Therefore there cannot be one form embracing both the absolutely ...
... relation it bears to something else " but concluded that " the essence of a thing— what it is in itself — is by its very nature prior to any relation it may have . . . . Therefore there cannot be one form embracing both the absolutely ...
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... Relation and ( Deposition Arrangement concerns the site and position of the parts ... Even when the smallest parts of a building are set in their proper place , they add charm ; but when positioned somewhere strange , ignoble , or ...
... Relation and ( Deposition Arrangement concerns the site and position of the parts ... Even when the smallest parts of a building are set in their proper place , they add charm ; but when positioned somewhere strange , ignoble , or ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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