On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

by Daniel Purdy

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. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural reasoning provided a method for critically examining consciousness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801476763
• ISBN13: 9780801476761
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher