Architecture and Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture and Ritual write by Peter Blundell Jones. This book was released on 2016-08-25. Architecture and Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Architecture and Ritual explores how the varied rituals of everyday life are framed and defined in space by the buildings which we inhabit. It penetrates beyond traditional assumptions about architectural style, aesthetics and utility to deal with something more implicit: how buildings shape and reflect our experience in ways of which we remain unconscious. Whether designed to house a grand ceremony or provide shelter for a daily meal, all buildings coordinate and consolidate social relations by giving orientation and focus to the spatial practices of those who use them. Peter Blundell Jones investigates these connections between the social and the spatial, providing critical insights into the capacity for architecture to structure human ritual, from the grand and formal to the mundane. This is achieved through deep readings of individual pieces of architecture, each with a detailed description of its particular social setting and use. The case studies are drawn from throughout architectural history and from around the globe, each enabling a distinct theoretical theme to emerge, and showing how social conventions vary with time and place, as well as what they have in common. Case studies range from the Nuremberg Rally to the Centre Pompidou, and from the Palace of Westminster to Dogon dwellings in Africa and a Modernist hospital. In considering how all architecture has to mesh with the habits, beliefs, rituals and expectations of the society that created it, the book presents deep implications for our understanding of architectural history and theory. It also highlights the importance for architects of understanding how buildings frame social space before they prescribe new architectural designs of their own. The book ends with a recent example of user participation, showing how contemporary user interest and commitment to a building can be as strong as ever.
Ritual House
Ritual House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual House write by Ralph Knowles. This book was released on 2006-02-02. Ritual House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrated architect Ralph Knowles, Distinguished Emeritus at USC’s School of Architecture, has carefully crafted a book for architects, designers, planners—anyone who yearns to reconnect to the natural world through the built environment. He shows us how to re-examine a shadow, a wall, a window, a landscape, as they respond to the natural cycles of heat, light, wind, and rain. Analyzing methods of sheltering that range from a Berber tent to a Spanish courtyard to the cityscape of contemporary Los Angeles, Ritual House shows us the future: by coining the concept of solar access zoning, he introduces a radical yet increasingly viable solution for tomorrow’s mega-cities.
Architecture of the Sacred
Architecture of the Sacred - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture of the Sacred write by Bonna D. Wescoat. This book was released on 2014-10-13. Architecture of the Sacred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.
Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople
Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople write by Vasileios Marinis. This book was released on 2014-01-13. Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the interchange of architecture and ritual in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constantinople (ninth to fifteenth centuries). It employs archaeological and archival data, hagiographic and historical sources, liturgical texts and commentaries, and monastic typika and testaments to integrate the architecture of the medieval churches of Constantinople with liturgical and extra-liturgical practices and their continuously evolving social and cultural context. The book argues against the approach that has dominated Byzantine studies: that of functional determinism, the view that architectural form always follows liturgical function. Instead, proceeding chapter by chapter through the spaces of the Byzantine church, it investigates how architecture responded to the exigencies of the rituals, and how church spaces eventually acquired new uses. The church building is described in the context of the culture and people whose needs it was continually adapted to serve. Rather than viewing churches as frozen in time (usually the time when the last brick was laid), this study argues that they were social constructs and so were never finished, but continually evolving.
Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia
Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia write by Marianne Hem Eriksen. This book was released on 2019-02-28. Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores households, social organization, and rituals in Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of dwellings and their doorways.
