The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture

by Barrie; Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780415779647
• ISBN10: 0415779642
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-02-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Thomas Barrie is Professor of Architecture at North Carolina Stare 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 architecture and the author of Spiritual Path-Sacred Place: Myth, Ritual and Meaning in Architecture (Shambhala Publications, 1996).

Table of Contents

Illustration Credits	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Middle Ground of Interpretation: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and the Sensory Experience of Architecture	p. 14
Practices of Connection: Applications of Transcendentalist and Buddhist Philosophies	p. 29
Mediating Elements: Symbolism, Religion, and the In-Between	p. 39
Symbolic Engagements: The Media of Architecture	p. 61
Carl Jung's House in Bollingen: Architecture as a Medium of Transformation	p. 64
Earth and Sky: Place and Primordial Architecture	p. 80
Native American Earthworks, Burial Mounds, and Effigy Figures: Cosmological Orientations and Mediations	p. 91
The Sacred Path and Place: Spatial Sequences and Symbolic Narratives	p. 103
Tongdo Zen Buddhist Monastery, Korea: The Path as a Mediator	p. 113
Ordering the World: Means and Meanings of Proportion and Geometry	p. 132
Saint Benedict's Abbey, Vaals, Holland, by Dam Hans van der Laan: Designing a Middle Ground	p. 150
Perfected Worlds: Cosmograms and Connections	p. 167
The Late Works of the Ottomon Architect Sinan: Multitudinous Contexts, Packed Agendas, and Diverse Interpretations	p. 178
Conclusion	p. 212
Closing Thoughts: Personal Experiences of Place	p. 227
Notes	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 258
Index	p. 264
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