Thomas Barrie

The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134725298
• Artikelnr.: 39908365

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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