Socrates' ancestor : an essay on architectural beginnings / Indra Kagis McEwen.

Main entry:

McEwen, Indra Kagis.

Title & Author:

Socrates' ancestor : an essay on architectural beginnings / Indra Kagis McEwen.

Publication:

Description:

x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Master--McGill University School of Architecture).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index.
Anaximander and the articulation of order -- Daedalus and the discovery of order -- Between movement and fixity: the place for order.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262132923
9780262132923
0262631482 (pbk.)
9780262631488 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Greece.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Greek History.
Architecture grecque Histoire.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture Grèce.
architectural theory.
Architecture, Greek
Architecture
Architektur
Philosophie
Architecture, Greek Philosophy.
Architecture antique Grèce.
Greece
Griechenland
Greece Antiquities Expertising.
Grèce Antiquités.
Griechenland (Altertum)
Architecture History

Form/genre:

Theses.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110899
Call No.: ID NA270.M38; ID:94-B640
Status: Available

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