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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Publication date
May 4, 2011
Pages
322
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780816673056
ISBN-10
0816673055
Dimensions
1 by 7.25 by 10 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Original list price
$35.00
Other format details
university press
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Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry, Piotrowski traces ancient to modern architectural histories andâthrough critical readings of select buildingsâexamines the role of nonverbal exchanges in the development of an accumulated Western identity. Unlike studies that organize around the traditional scheme of periodization in history, Architecture of Thought uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate a wide spectrum of cultural productions in different times and places.
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 waysâdistill emerging or alter existing worldviewsâbefore words can stabilize them as conventional narratives.
Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry, Piotrowski traces ancient to modern architectural histories andâthrough critical readings of select buildingsâexamines the role of nonverbal exchanges in the development of an accumulated Western identity. Unlike studies that organize around the traditional scheme of periodization in history, Architecture of Thought uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate a wide spectrum of cultural productions in different times and places.
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Operating from the assertion that buildings are the most permanent record of unself-conscious beliefs and attitudes, it discusses Byzantium and the West after iconoclasm, the conquest and colonization of Mesoamerica, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe, the rise of the culture of consumerism in Victorian England, and High Modernism as its consequence. By moving beyond the assumption that historical structures reflect transcendental values and deterministic laws of physics or economy or have been shaped by self-conscious individuals, Piotrowski challenges the traditional knowledge of what architecture is and can be.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of Minnesota Pr (May 4, 2011)
9780816673049 | details & prices | 408 pages | 7.25 × 10.50 × 1.00 in. | 2.30 lbs | List price $105.00
Paperback
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from Univ of Minnesota Pr (May 4, 2011)
9780816673056 | details & prices | 322 pages | 7.25 × 10.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.95 lbs | List price $35.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
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