In German, for the moral and intellectual trends of a given era. Taken from the German words zeit meaning ‘time’ and geist meaning ‘spirit’, the term literally means ‘the spirit of the age’. The zeitgeist in architecture can be reflected in the choice of materials, colours forms and other stylistic references. (Ambrose, 2008)
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