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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... spatial and geometric ways , but are of subsidiary importance and are frequently of lesser volume . There might a tertiary spatial or geometric order attaching to the secondary system in equivalent ways . Such a hierarchical spatial ...
... spatial and geometric ways , but are of subsidiary importance and are frequently of lesser volume . There might a tertiary spatial or geometric order attaching to the secondary system in equivalent ways . Such a hierarchical spatial ...
Page 376
... spatial ordering " with the curious privilege of discriminating independent coherences , while sustaining a cohesion between the parts only by default and through spatial adjacency . " Changes in level of floor and ceiling combined with ...
... spatial ordering " with the curious privilege of discriminating independent coherences , while sustaining a cohesion between the parts only by default and through spatial adjacency . " Changes in level of floor and ceiling combined with ...
Page 379
... spatial addition [ is ] spatial division . The components of spatial form are no longer complete , isolated addends , but fractions of a pre - existent whole . The space does not consist of many units ; it is one unit divided into parts ...
... spatial addition [ is ] spatial division . The components of spatial form are no longer complete , isolated addends , but fractions of a pre - existent whole . The space does not consist of many units ; it is one unit divided into parts ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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