Even so, the paintings and the city both stand at the intersection of material reality and metaphysical thought.

And in the post-industrial city, it may no longer be possible to divorce consciousness from material reality.

The problem is that when you try to journey there, material reality keeps pulling you back again.

The conflict for early Renaissance writers involved the interaction between the "material reality" and the "abstract idea" of the body.

It came with the understanding that an architect would use the tools of the profession to change material reality for the better.

I wanted rather to write about geography, landscape, about the influence of material reality on the mind".

Architects call the process design; with it, they transform material reality on a gigantic scale.

Experience belongs as much to the mental landscape as to the realm of material reality.

One of architecture's glories is to extend metaphor to material reality.

The paper your brother uncovered may be the only material reality that it has.