Knowledge, art, and architecture: Perceptual continuity in Hellenic Greece

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dc.contributor.advisorIngersoll, Richard
dc.creatorThurston, Torin Richard
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:41:03Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:41:03Z
dc.date.issued1989
dc.description.abstractThis thesis represents an investigation into a particular determinate of architectural form, perception. By perception, I mean the act of apprehension, understanding and awareness associated with an active search for meaning. I suggest that there exists a perceptual history that affords insight into the creation of architecture. The methodology for this investigation consists of three major components. The first defines a state of perception of a given culture based on that culture's philosophic and scientific investigation. Secondly, this temporal state is given visual meaning through a culture's artistic endeavors. The final section illustrates that a perceptual continuity between knowledge and art continues to influence the built environment and reasserts one's connection to a wholeness of experience. I have applied this methodology to the rise of Western thought and expression in Hellenic Greece. At a time when building form is predominately determined by egotism, ethnocentrism, and economic factors, existential determinates become overshadowed. It is to the degree that these determinates predominate that a timeless architecture is created.
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dc.identifier.callnoThesis Arch. 1990 Thurston
dc.identifier.citationThurston, Torin Richard. "Knowledge, art, and architecture: Perceptual continuity in Hellenic Greece." (1989) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13476">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13476</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13476
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.titleKnowledge, art, and architecture: Perceptual continuity in Hellenic Greece
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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