The Woof and the Warp of Architecture: The Figure-Ground in Urban Design
To borrow a metaphor used by Georg W.F. Hegel in the Philosophy of History to describe historical processes, architecture should be understood as a series of complex threads wherein one recognizes the physical forms as the warp, and the temporal, socio-political, natural, and aural contexts as the w...
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| Main Author: | B.D. Wortham-Galvin |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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TU Delft OPEN Publishing
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Footprint |
| Online Access: | https://ojs-libaccp.tudelft.nl/index.php/footprint/article/view/726 |
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