The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780415779630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str.

Thomas Barrie

Opis

For anyone interested in sacred architecture, this book offers an insight into the buildings and the forces behind them. Examining the contexts, approaches and understandings of the architecture involved, the author draws on a range of cases and reflects on their continuing significance and the lessons they can offer today.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Middle Ground of Interpretation: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and the Sensory Experience of Architecture  3. Practices of Connection: Applications of Transcendentalist and Buddhist Philosophies  4. Meditating Elements: Symbolism, Religion and the In-between  5. Symbolic Engagements: The Media of Architecture  6. Earth and Sky: Place and Primordial Architecture  7. The Sacred Path and Place: Spatial Sequences and Symbolic Narratives  8. Ordering the World: The Symbolism of Proportion and Geometry  9. Perfected Worlds: Cosmograms and Connections  10. Conclusion  11. Closing Thoughts: Personal Experiences of Place

O autorze

Thomas Barrie is Professor of Architecture at North Carolina State University whose scholarship on the symbolism, ritual use, and cultural significance of architecture has taken him to sacred places around the world. He is an award-winning architect and the author of Spiritual Path - Sacred Place: Myth, Ritual and Meaning in Architecture (Shambhala Publications, 1996).