Architecture

Building design, aesthetics, and engineering.

Zachary Roush and

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We'll speak about the architectural imagination.

And I'm going to suggest that some concept like the imagination

is necessary if we want to treat architecture as a mode of knowledge.

The classical philosophers said, the soul

never thinks without phantasm, which is to say that thought needs a material

image, something to carry the thought.

So we begin to think of the imagination as bridging the gap between perception

and understanding.

source: HarvardX GSD1xThe Architectural Imagination

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Tomas Petricek • On architecture, urban planning and software construction

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