Architecture of Thought

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction: The Moving Target of Architecture. . . . . . . . . . xi 1. Architecture and Medieval Modalities of Thought. . . . . . . . .1 2. Colonization and Symbolic Reality in Mesoamerica . . . . . .33 3. Structures of Tolerance and Religious Domination . . . . . . .93 4. Technologies of Thought in Victorian England . . . . . . . . . .153 5. High Modernism according to Le Corbusier. . . . . . . . . . . .231 Closing Remarks: The West. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258 Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267 Illustration Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315 This page intentionally left blank ...