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020			_a1580930190 _qpaperback
020			_a9781580930192 _qpaperback
040			_aUniversiti Teknologi Brunei _beng _cUTB
084			_aNA737 ERI 1998
100	1		_aMoss, Eric Owen, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGnostic architecture / _cEric Owen Moss
260			_aNew York : _bThe Monacelli Press, _c1998.
300			_aVarious paging : _bColour illustrations ; _c32 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references
520			_aThe 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	_aArchitecture _xphilosophy
942			_2lc _n0 _cGC
998			_eBook _s850741 : 018548(H) c.1 UTB _xDonated by Pg Hj Ishakumar bin Pg Hj Ibrahim
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