There is a fascinating, digressive chapter in Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris about how architecture was once the main form of expression of human thought and how the invention of the printing press put an end to this.Are there any other books about this topic? The intersection of philosophy and architecture? And was Hugo even correct?
>>24945477Read Spengler.
John Ruskin was big on this, I think. I read through Stones of Venice and got some hints of what you're describing vis-à-vis Hugo.
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The Aesthetics of Architecture by Roger ScrutonAlso his book on Beauty
