Architecture, culture, and spirituality / edited by Thomas Barrie, Julio Bermudez [and] Phillip James Tabb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrie, Thomas.

Bermúdez, Julio Cesar.

Tabb, Phillip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality in architecture.

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Part I Being in the World""; ""2 On Architecture, Divinity, and the Interhuman""; ""3 Encountering Significance: Architecture, Place, and Heidegger?s Gods""; ""4 Phenomenology of the Architectural Extraordinary and Merleau-Ponty?s Philosophy""; ""Part II Sacred, Secular, and the Contemporary Condition""; ""5 The Sacred becomes Profane""; ""6 An Aesthetic and Ethical Account of Genius Loci""; ""7 Neophilia, Spirituality, and Architecture""

""Part III Symbolic Engagements""""8 A Home in the World: The Ontological Significance of Home""; ""9 Symbolism and Myth of Mountains, Stone, and Light as Expressed in Sacred Architecture""; ""10 Narrating Chichén Itzá: Storytelling, Disagreement, and Second Naïveté at the?City of the Sacred Well?""; ""Part IV Sacred Landscapes""; ""11 Space, Object, and Encounter""; ""12 Regarding Sacred Landscapes and the Everyday Corollary""; ""13 Sacred Landscapes: The Threshold between Worlds""; ""Part V Spirituality and the Designed Environment""

""14 Secular Sacredness in Place Creation: A Case Study and Analysis of Serenbe Community""""15 Experiencing the Architecture of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent ""; ""16 Wonder, Wisdom, and Mastery in Architecture""; ""17 From Within: On the Spiritual in Art and Architecture""; ""Index""

Notes:

"First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-17902-1

1-315-56777-6

1-317-17901-3

1-4724-4172-9

9781315567778

OCLC:

948604085