The sacred in-between
Subtitle: the mediating roles of architecture
By: Thomas Barrie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415779630; 9780415779647
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The middle ground of interpretation. Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the sensory experience of architecture; title: Practices of connection. Applications of transcendentalist and Buddhist philosophies; title: Mediating elements. Symbolism, religions, and the in-between; title: Symbolic engagements. The media of architecture: Carl Jung's house in Bollingen: architecture as a medium of transformation; title: Earth and sky. Place and primordial architecture: Native American earthworks, burial mounds, and effigy figures: cosmological orientations and mediations; title: The sacred path and place. Spatial sequences and symbolic narratives: Tongdo Zen Buddhist Monastery, Korea: the path as a mediator; title: Ordering the world. Means and meanings of proportion and geometry: Saint Benedict's Abbey, Vaals, Holland, by Dom Hans von der Laan: designing a middle ground; title: Perfected worlds. Cosmograms and connections: the late works of the Ottoman architect Sinan: multitudinous contexts, packed agendas, and diverse interpretations; title: Conclusions; title: Closing thoughts. Personal experiences of place.