Transcending Architecture - 9780813226798

Transcending ArchitectureContemporary Views on Sacred Space\nAuthor(s): Julio Bermudez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The Catholic University of America Press, United States\nImprint: The Catholic University of America Press\nISBN-13: 9780813226798, 978-0813226798\nSynopsis\nHow 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.\n\nFar 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 sacred plac.