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Index
Foreword by John Anthony West
Acknowledgments
1. INTRODUCTION: A RADICAL REVELATION
2. THE SCIENTIFIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Architectural Revolution
The Wasteland
The Architecture of Alienation
3. MAKING THE MODERN ARCHITECT
The Failure of the Schools
The Plight of the Practicing Architect
4. THE MATERIALIST PARADIGM
A New Model of the Cosmos
Nihilism, Despair, and the Decline of the Arts
5. THE RETURN OF THE SPIRIT
The “Other Tradition”
The New Physics
The Mystical Vision
6. INTUITION AND THE CREATIVE MIND
The Mind and the Unconscious Mind
The Practice of Intuition
The Theory of the Archetype
7. ARCHETYPES OF SHELTER
The Cave
The Clearing
The Garden
The Presence of Water
The Four Elements
8. ARCHETYPES OF DESIGN
The Principle of Duality
Hierarchy
The Nature of Materials
9. THE RESOLUTION OF FORM
Form and Function
The Search for Form
The Mathematical Basis of Architecture
10. GEOMETRY AND NUMBER
Recovering the Ancient Tradition
Principles of Sacred Geometry
The Meaning of Proportion
Architectural Examples
11. ARCHITECT AND COSMOS
Anthropocosm
Magic and Symbol
The Parameters of Inspiration
12. A TIME OF TRANSITION
Principle and Process
Architect and Society
The New Architecture
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About Inner Traditions
Copyright
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