The Woof and the Warp of Architecture: The Figure-Ground in Urban Design

To borrow a metaphor used by Georg W.F. Hegel in the Philosophy of History to describe historical processes, architecture should be understood as a series of complex threads wherein one recognizes the physical forms as the warp, and the temporal, socio-political, natural, and aural contexts as the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: B.D. Wortham-Galvin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Jap Sam Books 2010-06-01
Series:Footprint
Online Access:https://ojs-libaccp.tudelft.nl/index.php/footprint/article/view/726