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Socrates' ancestor : an essay on architectural beginnings
- Title
- Socrates' ancestor : an essay on architectural beginnings / Indra Kagis McEwen.
- Author
- McEwen, Indra Kagis.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993.
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Details
- Description
- x, 194 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- An exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was in the archaic Greek "polis", that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- v – Theses.
- History
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (Master--McGill University School of Architecture).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-179) and index.
- Contents
- Anaximander and the articulation of order -- Daedalus and the discovery of order -- Between movement and fixity: the place for order.
- ISBN
- 0262132923
- 9780262132923
- 0262631482
- 9780262631488
- LCCN
- 93021863
- OCLC
- ocm27432664
- 27432664
- SCSB-1998429
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library