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  2. Architectural theory - Wikipedia

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    Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in all architecture schools and is practiced by the world's leading architects. Some forms that architecture theory takes are the lecture or dialogue, the treatise or book, and the paper project or competition entry ...

  3. Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture is a book by historian and architectural theorist Charles Jencks [1] who is well known for his contribution in post-modernism discourse. Jencks as the first architectural historian who claimed for the death of modernism, [ 2 ] here shows how post-modern architecture have developed its ...

  4. Category:Architectural theory - Wikipedia

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  5. Architecture - Wikipedia

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    The philosophy of architecture is a branch of philosophy of art, dealing with aesthetic value of architecture, its semantics and in relation with development of culture. Many philosophers and theoreticians from Plato to Michel Foucault , Gilles Deleuze , [ 13 ] Robert Venturi and Ludwig Wittgenstein have concerned themselves with the nature of ...

  6. The Primitive Hut - Wikipedia

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    The Primitive Hut as an architectural theory was brought to life over the mid-1700s till the mid-1800s, theorised in particular by abbé Marc-Antoine Laugier. Laugier provided an allegory of a man in nature and his need for shelter in An Essay on Architecture that formed an underlying structure and approach to architecture and its practice ...

  7. Phenomenology (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenology of architecture is the philosophical study of architecture employing the methods of phenomenology. David Seamon defines it as "the descriptive and interpretive explication of architectural experiences, situations, and meanings as constituted by qualities and features of both the built environment and human life".

  8. Philosophy of architecture - Wikipedia

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    Plato, whose influence on architecture is widely documented (e.g., 'idealism', 'neo-Platonic' architecture [1]), may be counted as part of a classical geometric model of cosmology, the popularity of which could be attributed to earlier thinkers such as Pythagoras. In early history, philosophers distinguished architecture ('technion') from ...

  9. Alberto Pérez-Gómez - Wikipedia

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    He then pursued graduate studies in the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Essex where he received his Master of Arts in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1979. In 1987 he became a Canadian Citizen and a Quebec resident. In 1984, he won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for his book Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science. [2]