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The sacred in-between: the mediating roles of architecture

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English

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The sacred in-between: the mediating roles of architecture

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London; New York

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Routledge

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c2010

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xii, 272 p.: ill., maps, plans; 26 cm

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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]258[-263( and index

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Thomas Barrie

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1

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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

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، Religious architecture

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، Mediation between God and man

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Barrie, Thomas

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