ARCHITECTURAL PHILOSOPHICAL TERM FROM PRE-SOCRATIC TO ENLIGHTENMENT

The philosophical term is considers as a basic intellectual background of architecture throughout history, but the architectural theories that touched on this subject haven't been diagnosed this term clearly, so I bring this paper to diagnose this term in philosophical architectural knowledge through the epochs of time, what gives this paper an importance in the study of architectural theories is disintegrate the knowledge confusion about this term and thus will be the beginning for more accurately topics that related to what the philosophical-architecture term is. The problem of the current research has been represented by the lack of studies with regard to essence of the philosophical-architectural term and it's employ in architecture. The objective of the study was defined in an attempt to discover the philosophical-architecture term and its mechanism employed in architecture. To achieve this goal the structural approach in building knowledge about the philosophical-architecture term has been adopted according to the epochs of time starting from the Pre-Socratic era down to Present era, that gives a high holistic to this study in the diagnosis of the philosophical- architecture term. This study is dividing into two main stages, first is covering the Pre-Socratic to the Enlightenment era, the subsequent study is covering modernism to the present era.