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On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought
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Product Description: The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science―the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity...read more
By Daniel L. Purdy
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9780801476761 | Cornell Univ Pr, January 30, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science―the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse.

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