On the Ruins of Babel : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought /
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...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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