Water And Sacred Architecture

Author : Anat Geva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000863710

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Water and Sacred Architecture by Anat Geva Pdf

This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The discussion centers on two levels of this relationship: how water influenced the sacredness of buildings across history and different religions; and how sacred architecture expressed the spiritual meaning of water. The volume deliberately offers original material on various unique contextual and design aspects of water and sacred architecture, rather than an attempt to produce a historic chronological analysis on the topic or focusing on a specific geographical region. As such, this unique volume adds a new dimension to the study of sacred architecture. The book’s chapters are compiled by a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It addresses major aspects of water in religious buildings, such as, rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material and place-making, hydro systems, modern practices, environmental considerations, the contribution of water to transforming secular into sacred, and future digital/cyber context of water and sacredness. All chapters are based on original archival studies, historical documents, and field visits to the sites and buildings. These examinations show water as an expression of architectural design, its materiality, and its spiritual values. The book will be of interest to architects, historians, environmentalists, archaeologists, religious scholars, and preservationists.

Author : Julia Hegewald
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004502666

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Water Architecture in South Asia by Julia Hegewald Pdf

Water architecture in South Asia represents some of the most beautiful and spectacular building achievements of the region. This study provides a holistic approach to the subject, suggesting common links and regional contrasts between types of water structures and their contexts, with a comprehensive interpretation of the history and meaning of water architecture in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Five types of water structures are identified. Their development is traced from simple to more complex forms, considering how these accommodate secular and religious functions, and present expressions of sacred and royal authority. This publication is the first reference work on the subject. Many of the structures discussed and illustrated here have never been published before. Its comprehensive approach will have a wide relevance for other South Asian disciplines.

Author : James Pallister
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714868957

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Sacred Spaces by James Pallister Pdf

A ground‐breaking and enlightening exploration of the structures which elevate architecture to spirituality. Sacred Spaces showcases 30 of the most breath‐taking, innovative, iconic and undiscovered examples of contemporary religious architecture, including work by well‐known architects alongside emerging designers. Spanning all major religions and places of worship from intimate, reflective chapels and cemeteries to dramatic cathedrals and memorials, Sacred Spaces documents each project with lavish‐in‐depth photography and drawings and texts by James Pallister that provide a modern historical context. An inspiring collection and thorough survey, the buildings in Sacred Spaces will appeal to architects and designers as well as the general public intrigued by creative culture, religion and spirituality.

Author : Anat Geva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351665339

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Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture by Anat Geva Pdf

Mid-20th century sacred architecture in America sought to bridge modernism with religion by abstracting cultural and faith traditions and pushing the envelope in the design of houses of worship. Modern architects embraced the challenges of creating sacred spaces that incorporated liturgical changes, evolving congregations, modern architecture, and innovations in building technology. The book describes the unique context and design aspects of the departure from historicism, and the renewal of heritage and traditions with ground-breaking structural features, deliberate optical effects and modern aesthetics. The contributions, from a pre-eminent group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Australia, and Europe are based on original archival research, historical documents, and field visits to the buildings discussed. Investigating how the authority of the divine was communicated through new forms of architectural design, these examinations map the materiality of liturgical change and communal worship during the mid-20th century.

Author : Thomas Barrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134725229

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The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture by Thomas Barrie Pdf

The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an ‘in-between’ place. Establishing the contexts, approaches and understandings of architecture through the lens of the mediating roles often performed by sacred architecture, this book offers the reader an extraordinary insight into the forces behind these extraordinary buildings. Written by a well-known expert in the field, the book draws on a unique range of cases, reflecting on these inspiring places, their continuing ontological significance and the lessons they can offer today. Fascinating reading for anyone interested in sacred architecture.

Author : Christie Pearson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262044219

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The Architecture of Bathing by Christie Pearson Pdf

A celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape. We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathing opens all of our senses toward the physical world entwined with the social, while the history of bathing is one of shared space, in both natural and built environments. In The Architecture of Bathing, Christie Pearson offers a unique examination of communal bathing and its history from the perspective of architecture and landscape. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, with more than 260 illustrations, many in color, The Architecture of Bathing offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle. Pearson takes a wide-ranging view of her subject, drawing on architecture, art, and literary works. Each chapter is structured around an architectural typology and explores an accompanying theme—for example, tub, sensuality; river, flow; waterfall, rejuvenation; and banya, immersion. Offering examples, introducing relevant theory, and recounting personal experiences, Pearson effortlessly combines a practitioner's zest with astonishing erudition. As she examines these forms, we see that they are inextricable from landscapes, bodily practices, and cultural production. Looking more closely, we experience architecture itself as an immersive material and social space, embedded inthe interdependent environmental and cultural fabric of our world.

Author : A. T. Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture and cosmology
ISBN : 0760703477

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Sacred architecture by A. T. Mann Pdf

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Architecture, Gothic
ISBN : ONB:+Z17521680X

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Sacred Architecture, Its Rise, Progress, and Present State by Richard Brown Pdf

Author : Herbert Bangs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781620550519

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The Return of Sacred Architecture by Herbert Bangs Pdf

An inspirational call for a return to the tenets of traditional architecture as a remedy for the dehumanizing standards of modern architecture • Explains how modern architecture is emblematic of our current estrangement from the spiritual principles that shaped humanity’s greatest civilizations • Reveals how the ancient laws of sacred proportion and harmony can be restored The ugly buildings that characterize the modern landscape are inferior not only to the great cathedrals of medieval Europe and the temples of ancient Egypt and Greece, but even to lesser buildings of the more recent past. The great masterworks of our ancestors spoke to humanity’s higher nature. Architect Herbert Bangs reveals how today’s dysfunctional buildings bring out the worst in humanity, reinforcing that which is most base within us. He shows how, through the ancient laws of proportion and number, architecture once expressed the harmonious relationship between man and the cosmos. In early times, the architect worked within a sacred and esoteric tradition of creating structures through which human beings could gain insight into the nature of the divine reality. Today, that tradition has been abandoned in favor of narrowly defined utilitarian principles of efficiency and economy. In The Return of Sacred Architecture, Bangs provides the key to freeing architecture from the crude functionality of the twentieth century: the architects of the modern human landscape must find the deep-felt connection to the cosmos that guided the inner lives of those who built the temples of the past. The form of their buildings will then reflect the sacred patterns of geometry and proportion and bring forth greater harmony in the world.

Author : Rich Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10048255

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Sacred Architecture, its rise, progress and present state, embracing the babylonian, indian, egyptian, greek and roman temples - the byzantine, saxon, lombard, norman and italian churches... illustrated with sixty-three plates by Rich Brown Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Altman
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587680137

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Sacred Water by Nathaniel Altman Pdf

Drawing from a variety of religious teachings, anthropological evidence and myths and legends from around the world, this book examines how the essential element water plays a vital role in all aspects of our spiritual lives.

Author : Philip Drew,Tadao Andō
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017763843

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Church On the Water, Church of the Light by Philip Drew,Tadao Andō Pdf

These two small and exquisite churches by Tadao Ando - one rural and 'open', the other urban and 'enclosed' - complement each other perfectly and together provide an insight into Ando's creation of sacred space. The Church on the Water occupies an idyllic pastoral site and consists of two squares, one large, one small, that overlap and are arranged facing a man-made pool. The Church of the Light is built in a quiet residential area of Osaka. Here Ando explores the spiritual force of the effects of sunlight on raw concrete. Slits cut in the form of a cross perforate the chapel's front wall; when lit up by the morning sun they create what Ando describes as a 'cross of light'. With these two churches, Ando provides a synthesis of opposites, creating spaces that attain a purity and calm through powerful architectonic forms.

Author : Nigel Pennick
Publisher : Aeon Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781781810552

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Sacred Architecture of London by Nigel Pennick Pdf

London has a unique series of churches built after the Great Fire of 1666, when most of the City of London was destroyed. Among these iconic churches are St Paul's, St Mary-le-Bow, St Bride's, St Clement Danes, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary-le-Strand, St George Bloomsbury and Christ Church Spitalfields. They remain today as outstanding landmarks that define their local cityscapes. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and his followers - Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Archer and James - these beautiful churches embody spiritual principles expressed through the conventions of Classical architecture. Underlying their outward, visible forms is sacred geometry, an ancient art that explores the invisible inner structure of the Cosmos and gives expression to it in physical form. In this book, Nigel Pennick explains the sacred geometry, spiritual symbols and emblems that make these churches among the most notable buildings of London.

Author : Claudio Gambardella,Claudia Cennamo,Maria Luisa Germanà,Mohd Fairuz Shahidan,Hocine Bougdah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030507657

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Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture by Claudio Gambardella,Claudia Cennamo,Maria Luisa Germanà,Mohd Fairuz Shahidan,Hocine Bougdah Pdf

At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Augé, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind. Therefore this book, on the one hand, considers the importance of utopia as a tool and how it offers an economic and social resource to improve cities’ wealth, future and livability. On the other, it explores the impact of religious and cultural ideals on cities that have recently emerged in this context. Based on numerous observations, the book examines the intellectual legacy of utopian theory and practices across various academic disciplines. It also presents discussions, theories, and case studies addressing a range of issues and topics related to utopia.

Author : Bonna D. Wescoat,Robert G. Ousterhout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107008236

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Architecture of the Sacred by Bonna D. Wescoat,Robert G. Ousterhout Pdf

This book investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures.