Sacred Architecture: Symbolic Form and Ornament

by Piers Vitebsky and Caroline Humphrey

Book Overview

Looks at the different ways the worlds religions translate their beliefs into architecture, and discusses site selection, feng shui, celestial alignments, and consecration. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760772118
• ISBN13: 9780760772119
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Barnes and Noble
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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Being an architect, I didn't think twice before buying this book and I am glad I didn't. The paper quality and printing alone are worth the price and anything beyond that is pure joy. This book works at many levels for those who have always sought meaning behind the relation between religion and astronomy and their translation into architecture. Besides exploring physical elements like geography, color, texture, material, the book also deals with space, smell, sound and realms. It voices the need of humans to connect with the divine and is a rich tribute to the ancient cultures of the world. It explores the practice of religion and significance attached to symbols, and very candidly explain the need for the preservation of beliefs for posterity through the use of a common language called architecture.