Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture 9780816634767, 0816634769, 0816634777

Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning 9781474469159

Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the A

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Meaning in Western Architecture [Revised] 0847803198, 9780847803194

Surveys the ways in which man has symbolized his search for order in his environment through architecture in such cultur

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The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament 9781474482202

Collects Yasser Tabbaa’s writings on transformations in Islamic architecture and ornament in relation to parallel theolo

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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.

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Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning [2 ed.] 074861379X

This book contains only one man’s view of Islamic architecture; it does not pretend to summarise the accepted views of t

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Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings 9781474287746, 9781474287753, 9781474287760, 9781474287722

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and mu

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Eloquent Spaces: Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture 9780815382096, 9780367225964, 9780367225988

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Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens: Four Essays, Four Commentaries [1 ed.] 0415617251, 9780415617253

While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscap

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Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning 9780231501729

This classic text—continually in print for more than half a century—analyzes the architecture of societies in western Eu

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The Mechanics of Meaning: Propositional Content and the Logical Space of Wittgenstein's Tractatus 9783110889130, 9783110172188

This analysis of Wittgenstein's concept of a Spielraum, in which the author approaches the Tractatus Logico-philoso

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