Return of Sacred Architecture.Return of Sacred Architecture Herbert Bangs, M.A.rch Inner Traditions One Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767 1594771324 $24.95 www.InnerTraditions.com Both architecture and spirituality collections will relish Return of Sacred Architecture: The Golden Ratio and the End of Modernism modernism, in religion, a general movement in the late 19th and 20th cent. that tried to reconcile historical Christianity with the findings of modern science and philosophy. : it contrasts and modern religious architectural structure An architectural structure is a free-standing, immobile outdoor construction. The structure may be permanent. Typical examples include buildings and nonbuilding structures such as bridges, dams, electricity pylons, and radio masts. with the grand monuments of the past, revealing how modern dysfunctional dys·func·tion also dis·func·tion n. Abnormal or impaired functioning, especially of a bodily system or social group. dys·func buildings bring out the worst in humanity and how ancestral ANCESTRAL. What relates to or has, been done by one's ancestors; as homage ancestral, and the like. masterworks focus on the best. Architecture once was closer to expressing the sacred between man and cosmos: THE RETURN OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE focuses on the elements of this expression and is especially recommended for any college-level architectural library. |
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