The Author: John Shannon Hendrix earned a Ph.D. in architecture at Cornell University and teaches architectural design and art and architectural history at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the author of five previous books: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Spirit (Peter Lang, 2005); Platonic Architectonics (Peter Lang, 2004); Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures (Peter Lang, 2003); The Relation Between Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures in the Work of Francesco Borromini in Seventeenth-Century Rome (2003); and History and Culture in Italy (2003).