The Sacred In Between The Mediating Roles Of Architecture

Author : Thomas Barrie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134725221
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture written by Thomas Barrie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an ‘in-between’ place. Establishing the contexts, approaches and understandings of architecture through the lens of the mediating roles often performed by sacred architecture, this book offers the reader an extraordinary insight into the forces behind these extraordinary buildings. Written by a well-known expert in the field, the book draws on a unique range of cases, reflecting on these inspiring places, their continuing ontological significance and the lessons they can offer today. Fascinating reading for anyone interested in sacred architecture.

Author : Thomas Barrie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317366492
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House and Home written by Thomas Barrie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges 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 eternal life. Turning to more recent topics, it discusses how writers often used simple huts as a means to address the essentials of existence; modernist architects envisioned the capacity of house and home to improve society; and the suburban house was positioned as a superior setting for culture and family. Throughout the book, house and home are critically examined to illustrate the perennial role and capacity of architecture to articulate the human condition, position it more meaningfully in the world, and assist in our collective homecoming.

Author : Julio Bermudez
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813226791
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcending Architecture written by Julio Bermudez and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please fill in marketing copy

Author : Dak Kopec
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315464403
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Well-being for Interior Architecture written by Dak Kopec and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Traditional and Alternative Approaches to Health and Well-being -- 2 Co-producing Our Habitat for Health and Well-being -- 3 Human Factors and Ergonomics through the Lifespan -- 4 Designing to Confront the Adverse Health Impacts of Workplace Sitting -- 5 Communicable Diseases and our Environments -- 6 Environmental Contaminants -- 7 Green Design and Health -- 8 Health and Wellness in Today's Technological Society -- 9 Salutogenic Design for Birth -- 10 Healthy Schools, Healthy Lifestyles: Literature Review -- 11 Universal Design, Design for Aging in Place, and Habilitative Design in Residential Environments -- 12 Empathic Design Matters -- 13 The Role of Place in Well-being -- 14 Designing for Spirituality -- 15 Safety, Security, and Well-being within the Dimensions of Health Care -- 16 The Intersection of Law, Human Health, and Buildings -- Afterword -- Index

Author : James S. Bielo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135006291X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Christianity written by James S. Bielo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Christians make relationships with land central to their faith? How have the realities of materiality, geography, and ecology shaped Christian territories of belonging and theologies of territory? What social-economic-political conditions surround exchanges between religion and nature? This book explores how Christianity intersects with nature to create unique religious landscapes. Case studies range from the Mormon Trail across the USA completed by thousands every year, to the Catholic devotional cult of and shrine to St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Contributors examine the entangled forms of agency between nature and culture that are at work as Christians produce, consume, experience, imagine, inhabit, manage, and struggle over formations of land. Focusing on Christian engagements with land forms in the early 21st century, this book advances the spatial turn in the study of religion, contributes to the anthropology of religion and the study of global Christianities, as well as our understanding of the relationship between Christianity, space and place.

Author : Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004376798
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time and Transformation in Architecture written by Tuuli Lähdesmäki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time and Transformation in Architecture, edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, explores architecture and the built environment by emphasizing in its theoretical discussions and empirical analysis the dimensions of time, temporality, and transformation—and their relation to human experiences, behavior, and practices.

Author : Thomas Barrie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317179013
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality written by Thomas Barrie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship. The seventeen chapters provide a diverse range of perspectives, grouped according to topical themes: Being in the World; Sacred, Secular, and the Contemporary Condition; Symbolic Engagements; Sacred Landscapes; and Spirituality and the Designed Environment. Even though the authors’ approach the subject from a range of disciplines and theoretical positions, all share interests in the need to rediscover, redefine, or reclaim the sacred in everyday experience, scholarly analysis, and design.

Author : Michael B. Hundley
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589839196
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods in Dwellings written by Michael B. Hundley and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2013-11-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book devoted exclusively to temples and perceptions of the divine presences that inhabit them, Michael B. Hundley focuses on the official religions of the ancient Near East and explores the interface between the human and the divine within temple environs. Hundley identifies common ancient Near Eastern temple systems and examines issues that include what temple structures communicate, how temples were understood to function, temple ideology, the installation of divine presence in a temple, the connection between presence and physical representation, and human service to the deity. Drawing on architectural and spatial theory, ritual theory, theories of language, art history, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and comparative studies, Hundley offers a single interpretive lens through which to view temple worship. Features: A close examination of temples in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hittite Anatolia, and Syria-Palestine An interdisciplinary treatment of architecture, language, ritual, and art A dual focus on how a deity's divine presence connects to space and art and how human service to the deity maintains the deity's active presence

Author : N. Wariboko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137463198
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charismatic City and the Public Resurgence of Religion written by N. Wariboko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two powerful and interrelated transnational cultural expressions mark our epoch, Charismatic spirituality and global city. This book demonstrates how these two forces can be used to inform ethical design of cities and their common social lives to best support human flourishing, spirituality, and social and ecological wellbeing of their residents.

Author : Michel Remery
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004209425
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystery and Matter written by Michel Remery and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an interdisciplinary approach and based on yet-unexplored sources, this book offers a new synthesis of the theory and works of the Dutch monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan from the perspective of the interrelationship between liturgy and architecture.