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"This book explains and celebrates the richness of English churches and cathedrals, which have a major place in medieval architecture. The English Gothic style developed somewhat later than in France, but rapidly developed its own architectural and ornamental codes. The author, John Shannon Hendrix, classifies English Gothic architecture in four principal stages: the early English Gothic, the decorated, the curvilinear, and the perpendicular Gothic. Several photographs of these architectural testimonies allow us to understand the whole originality of Britain during the Gothic era: in Canterbury, Wells, Lincoln, York, and Salisbury. English Gothic architecture is a poetic one, speaking both to the senses and spirit"--
Architecture, Gothic. --- Architecture --- Buildings --- Historic buildings --- Architecture, English --- Gothic architecture --- Christian antiquities --- Church architecture --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- History.
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Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in architecture. Here the role of the terms ""form"" and ""function"" are analyzed throughout the history of architecture and architectural theory, from Vitruvius to the present, with particular empha
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Platonists --- Aesthetics --- History --- Plato --- Aesthetics - History --- Plato - Aesthetics
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Bishops --- Philosophers --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Grosseteste, Robert, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- England --- Intellectual life
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Architecture --- Subconsciousness. --- Psychological aspects.
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Neoplatonism --- Aesthetics --- History --- Alexandrian school --- Church history --- Hellenism --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Platonists --- Theosophy --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics - History
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