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Abstract
Introduction
Chapter
1. Paradigms of Form: Idea, Type and Structure.
Chapter
2. Plato's Theory of Ideas: The Metaphysics of Architectural Form.
Chapter
3. Vitruvius' De architectura: The Natures of Architectural Form.
Chapter
4. Renaissance disegno: Idea and Representation.
Chapter
5. The Rise of Perception: Epistemological versus Aesthetic Meaning of Form.
Chapter
6. The Emergence of the Notion of Type: Laugier and Quatremère de Quincy.
Chapter
7. Type and Systematization of Architectural Knowledge: The Theory of J. N. L.
Durand.
Chapter
8. Type and Style, in Ninenteenth Century Architectural Theory.
Chapter
9. Art Theory and Psychology of Form: The Identity of Conception and Perception.
Chapter
10. Type and Modern Architecture: From Type to Formal Language.
Chapter
11. Type as Mind Structure.
Epilogue
References