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Architecture of thought

This study explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. According to the text, material structures enable people to...

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Main Author: Piotrowski, Andrzej (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press , 2011
Online Access:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816673049.001.0001
Related Items:Druckausg.: Architecture of thought
Author Notes:Andrzej Piotrowski
E-Book Packages:Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Architecture
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Summary:This study explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. According to the text, material structures enable people to think in new ways - distil emerging or alter existing worldviews - before words can stabilise them as conventional narratives.
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xviii, 322 p., [12] p. of plates))
ISBN:9781452945835