On the Ruins of Babel Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science-the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their...

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Main Author: Purdy, Daniel Leonhard (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2011
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