Architecture of thought [electronic resource] / Andrzej Piotrowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piotrowski, Andrzej, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In ""Architecture of Thought,"" Andrzej Piotrowski maps and conceptually explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. According to Piotrowski, material structures enable people to think in new ways--distill emerging or alter existing worldviews--before words can stabilize them as conventional narratives. Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry, Piotrowski traces ancient to modern architectural

Contents:

Introduction. The moving target of architecture

Architecture and medieval modalities of thought

Colonization and symbolic reality in Mesoamérica

Structures of tolerance and religious domination

Technologies of thought in Victorian England

High modernism according to Le Corbusier

Closing remarks. The West.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4583-7

0-8166-4573-6

OCLC:

742368503