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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Description
"At the core of the book is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain 'languages', which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. 'Patterns', the units...
Author
Publisher
New Page Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Author Robert R. Hieronimus will help you hear the symbolic messages encoded for us by our Founding Fathers in the symbols they chose. Unlike other writers on this topic, Hieronimus includes the historical background and the artistic influences behind the official design of each of these landmarks. To top it off, he gives an archetypal interpretation based on the numbers, colors, patterns, and themes and their usage in societies around the world.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A revolutionary new understanding of the most famous and influential building in the world, a thesis that calls into question our basic understanding of the ancient civilization that we most identify with. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture, the epitome of the ancient society from which we derive our highest ideals. It was understood to honor the city-state's patron deity Athena, and its...