Sacred Buildings
Title | Sacred Buildings PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolf Stegers |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2008-05-16 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 3764382767 |
The building of religious structures represents a rare opportunity for the architect to concentrate on the creation of volume, space, and form. Sacred architecture is far less determined than other building tasks by functional requirements, norms, and standards. As a rule, it is free to unfold as pure architecture. Thus in design terms this building task offers enormous freedoms to the architect. At the same time, however, the special atmospherics of sacred spaces call, on the part of the architect, for a highly sensitive treatment of religion and the relevant cultural and architectural traditions. In a systematic section, this volume introduces the design, technical, and planning fundamentals of building churches, synagogues, and mosques. In its project section, it also presents about seventy realized structures from the last three decades. Drawing upon his in-depth knowledge of the subject and his many years of publishing experience, the author offers a valuable analysis of the conceptual and formal aspects that combine to create the religious impact of spaces (e.g., the ground plan, the shapes of the spaces, the incidence of light, and materiality).
Sacred Places
Title | Sacred Places PDF eBook |
Author | Philemon Sturges |
Publisher | Putnam Juvenile |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Religions |
ISBN | 9780399233173 |
Describes various types of space which are sacred to different religions, including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and other shrines.
Sacred Places of a Lifetime
Title | Sacred Places of a Lifetime PDF eBook |
Author | National Geographic |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9781426203367 |
A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.
Sacred Places
Title | Sacred Places PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Yolen |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 48 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780152699536 |
A collection of poems about different places around the world that are considered sacred by various cultures, including Mecca, the Ganges River, and Christian cathedrals.
Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces
Title | Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Tsypylma Darieva |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-02-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1785337823 |
Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.
The Church Building as a Sacred Place
Title | The Church Building as a Sacred Place PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Stroik |
Publisher | Liturgy Training Publications |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Catholic church buildings |
ISBN | 1595250379 |
This collection of twenty-three essays by Duncan Stroik shows the development and consistency of his architectural vision. Packed with informative essays and over 170 photographs, this collection clearly articulates the Church’s architectural tradition.
Sacred Space, Sacred Sound
Title | Sacred Space, Sacred Sound PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Elizabeth Hale |
Publisher | Quest Books |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0835630706 |
Visionary singer Susan Hale believes that early peoples deliberately built their structures to enhance natural vibrations. She takes us around the globe-from Stonehenge and New Grange to Gothic cathedrals and Tibetan stupas in New Mexico-to explore the acoustics of sacred places. But, she says, you don't have to go to the Taj Mahal: The sacred is all around us, and we are all sound chambers resonating with the One Song.