The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison, Volume 2: Hermeneutical Calisthenics: A Morphology of Ritual-Architec

By Lindsay Jones

Book Overview

The two volumes of this investigation into how we perceive sacred architecture propose an original intepretation of built environments as ritual-architectural events. Exploring the world's cultures and religious traditions, Volume 1 maps out patterned responses to sacred architecture according to the human experience, mechanism, interpretation and comparison of architecture. Volume 2, an exercise in comparative morphology, offers a comprehensive framework of ritual-architectural priorities by looking at architecture as orientation, as commemoration and as ritual context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945454244
• ISBN13: 9780945454243
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"