Sacred Architecture

by A.T. Mann

Book Overview

For much of our history all architecture - not only religious monuments and buildings - created the physical context of the sacred. It can be seen in buildings as diverse as the Parthenon, Hopi initiation lodges, Stonehenge, the Temple at Luxor, the cathedrals, and the Palladian memory theatre, in which astronomical, mythical, geometric and structural patterns have been incorporated.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852303913
• ISBN13: 9781852303914
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Element Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

A superb starting point

As an architect, I found this book a fascinating launch pad for further research into the symbolism and mythologies that went in to the making of so much of the World's great architecture. As a primer, this book takes us from the mythic nature of ancient architectural symbolism through the memory theater of the middle ages and into the Jungian understanding of symbols and forms. I enjoyed the initiation into hidden truths concealed within buildings and now my travel plans are slowly converging with places descibed in ths book.