Theory and History of Architecture

Теория и история на архитектурата

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⇑Theory and History of Architecture at Higher School of Civil Engineering "Lyuben Karavelov"

Language: Bulgarian Studies in Bulgarian

Subject area: humanities

University website: www.vsu.bg/

Programme: Theory and History of Architecture
Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Doctor (доктор)
Duration: 3–4 years

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians.

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Theory

A theory is a contemplative and rational type of abstract or generalizing thinking, or the results of such thinking. Depending on the context, the results might, for example, include generalized explanations of how nature works. The word has its roots in ancient Greek, but in modern use it has taken on several related meanings.

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Theory

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. “Philosophy is the microscope of thought.” The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter, or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves, or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.

Walter Pater (1873), The Renaissance, Conclusion

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Architecture

The civil engineer is the real 19th century architect.

William Burges in: The Ecclesiologist, Vol. 28, 1867, p. 156:

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Architecture

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

Psalms. CXVIII. 22.

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