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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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260203t1998 -usao||g f||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1580930190 |
| Qualifying information |
paperback |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781580930192 |
| Qualifying information |
paperback |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Universiti Teknologi Brunei |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
UTB |
| 084 ## - BOOK Call Number |
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| Classification number |
NA737 ERI 1998 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Moss, Eric Owen, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Gnostic architecture / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Eric Owen Moss |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
The Monacelli Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1998. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
Various paging : |
| Other physical details |
Colour illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
32 cm |
| 504 ## - Bibliography, Etc. Note |
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The definitive statement of Eric Owen Moss's design theory, Gnostic Architecture seeks to expand the discussion of contemporary architecture beyond debates over style or ideology. It does so, however, not by turning to conventional site analysis or fashionable intellectual trends for support but by emphasizing the architect's personal approach to the act of building. "Gnostic architecture," Moss says, "is not about faith in a movement, a methodology, a process, a technique, or technology. It is a strategy for keeping architecture in a perpetual state of motion." While Moss's gnostic approach keeps the practice of architecture on the move, it nevertheless focuses on fundamental questions that face all architects, questions that, as he says, separate architects from those who just happen to do architecture. Gnosticism allows the architect to ignore the contradictions and confusions encountered along the path that is the practice of architecture, so that he or she may rely on individual, internally derived design methods. The measure of an architect's integrity is thus dependent on his or her own internal compass and not on external factors. The book, with its unique, trapezoidal shape and suggestive visual character, gives uncanny material expression to Moss's gnosticism. |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Architecture |
| General subdivision |
philosophy |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Local Classification |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |
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General Collection |
| 998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) |
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| Internal field |
Book |
| CC (RLIN) |
850741 : 018548(H) c.1 UTB |
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Donated by Pg Hj Ishakumar bin Pg Hj Ibrahim |
