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Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred Space
Julio Bermudez (Ed.)
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Description for Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred Space
Paperback. Editor(s): Bermudez, Julio. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AMN; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1089.
How should we construct sacred spaces, the places where we worship? Transcending Architecture considers the mysterious, profound, and real power of designed environments to address the spiritual dimension of our humanity. By incorporating perspectives from within and without architecture, the book oers a wide, critical, and nuanced understandin of the lived relationship between the built and the numinous worlds.
Far from avoiding the charged issues of subjectivity, culture andintangibility, the book examines phenomenological, symbolic and designerly ways in which the holy gets fixed and experienced through buildings, landscapes, and urban forms, and not just in institutionally defined religious or ... Read more
How should we construct sacred spaces, the places where we worship? Transcending Architecture considers the mysterious, profound, and real power of designed environments to address the spiritual dimension of our humanity. By incorporating perspectives from within and without architecture, the book oers a wide, critical, and nuanced understandin of the lived relationship between the built and the numinous worlds.
Far from avoiding the charged issues of subjectivity, culture andintangibility, the book examines phenomenological, symbolic and designerly ways in which the holy gets fixed and experienced through buildings, landscapes, and urban forms, and not just in institutionally defined religious or ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813226798
SKU
V9780813226798
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About Julio Bermudez (Ed.)
Julio Bermudez is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic University of America.
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