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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... structure one comes across quite regularly in commentaries by architects and critics . For example , for Christopher Alexander , the essence of community is made clear using a similar kind of statement concerning the ' overlapping ...
... structure one comes across quite regularly in commentaries by architects and critics . For example , for Christopher Alexander , the essence of community is made clear using a similar kind of statement concerning the ' overlapping ...
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... structure - one cannot in fact conceive of an unorganized structure - but above all to make sure the organizing principle of the structure would limit what we might call the play of the structure . By orienting and organizing the ...
... structure - one cannot in fact conceive of an unorganized structure - but above all to make sure the organizing principle of the structure would limit what we might call the play of the structure . By orienting and organizing the ...
Page 421
... structure - the communication of structure , or the structure of communication ? Denis Hollier ( 1989 ) argues that architecture pre - exists itself , that architecture is what architecture or anything becomes the moment it structures ...
... structure - the communication of structure , or the structure of communication ? Denis Hollier ( 1989 ) argues that architecture pre - exists itself , that architecture is what architecture or anything becomes the moment it structures ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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