Doherty, James Michael2014-03-142014-03-141988-02-15etd-06102012-040212http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43043The establishment of a comprehensive world-view enables a person to orient himself both physically and metaphysically within his context. Since, the time of Plato, the development of these world-views has been increasingly determined by the physical sciences and their accompanying modes of thought. What have some of the major tenents of these world-views been and how have they been developed? How have they influenced the concept of being and how is that concept of being expressed in Architecture?vi, 71 leavesBTDapplication/pdfIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1988.D644Architecture and society -- HistoryArchitecture -- HistoryThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06102012-040212/