Main entry:

Barrie, Thomas. author.

Title & Author:

The sacred in-between : the mediating roles of architecture / Thomas Barrie.

Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Description:

xii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-263) and index.
Introduction -- The middle ground of interpretation. Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the sensory experience of architecture -- Practices of connection. Applications of transcendentalist and Buddhist philosophies -- Mediating elements. Symbolism, religions, and the in-between -- Symbolic engagements. The media of architecture: Carl Jung's house in Bollingen: architecture as a medium of transformation -- Earth and sky. Place and primordial architecture: Native American earthworks, burial mounds, and effigy figures: cosmological orientations and mediations -- The sacred path and place. Spatial sequences and symbolic narratives: Tongdo Zen Buddhist Monastery, Korea: the path as a mediator -- 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 -- Perfected worlds. Cosmograms and connections: the late works of the Ottoman architect Sinan: multitudinous contexts, packed agendas, and diverse interpretations -- Conclusions -- Closing thoughts. Personal experiences of place.

ISBN:

9780415779630 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415779634 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415779647 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415779642 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Religious architecture.
Mediation between God and man.
Architecture religieuse.
Médiation entre Dieu et l'homme.
religious buildings.
20.10 art and society: general.
21.62 history of architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 267417
Call No.: BIB 199420
Status: Available