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950573
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b704943
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McEwen, Indra Kagis.
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| Title & Author
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Socrates' ancestor : : an essay on architectural beginnings /\ Indra Kagis McEwen.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: MIT Press,, ©1993.
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x, 194 pages :: illustrations ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0262132923
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: 0262631482
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: 9780262132923
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: 9780262631488
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| Notes
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Master--McGill University School of Architecture).
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index.
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| Contents
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Anaximander and the articulation of order -- Daedalus and the discovery of order -- Between movement and fixity: the place for order.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Architecture-- Philosophy.
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Architecture-- Greece.
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Architecture grecque-- Histoire.
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Architecture-- Philosophie.
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Architecture antique-- Grèce.
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Architecture-- Philosophie.
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Architecture-- Philosophy.
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Architecture, Greek-- Philosophy.
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Architecture.
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Architektur
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Philosophie
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Grèce, Antiquités.
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Greece, Antiquities, Expertising.
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Greece.
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Griechenland
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| Dewey Classification
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722/.8
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| LC Classification
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NA270.M38 1993
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45sdnb
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6,12ssgn
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6,15ssgn
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FB 4131rvk
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LG 1900rvk
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