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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... thinking and argumentation ; with imperatives of direction , and not with the direction itself . Paradoxically , while theory construed as if one were a spectator or onlooker may now be unacceptable , thinking about theory in this way ...
... thinking and argumentation ; with imperatives of direction , and not with the direction itself . Paradoxically , while theory construed as if one were a spectator or onlooker may now be unacceptable , thinking about theory in this way ...
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... thinking in architecture today , so we must return to conceptual modes of thinking . Aside from their colorless grammatical use as auxiliaries , the nuances of meaning attached to ' should ' and ' ought ' arise from a sense of duty ...
... thinking in architecture today , so we must return to conceptual modes of thinking . Aside from their colorless grammatical use as auxiliaries , the nuances of meaning attached to ' should ' and ' ought ' arise from a sense of duty ...
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... thinking " ( Sontag 1991 ) . Substitute architecture for illness and you have a fair statement of the agenda of the Modern Movement . Modernism ended for its critics when they metaphorically declared it an illness and eventually dead ...
... thinking " ( Sontag 1991 ) . Substitute architecture for illness and you have a fair statement of the agenda of the Modern Movement . Modernism ended for its critics when they metaphorically declared it an illness and eventually dead ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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