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.
For anyone interested in sacred architecture, this book offers an insight into the buildings and the forces behind them. Examining the contexts, appro...
House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles, and have been assiduously represented in scripture, literature, art, and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture, houses for their gods, and house tombs for...
House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges these predominant definitions and argues that dom...
