This book provides broadened contexts, perspectives and understandings of "home," and provides a unique scholarly contribution to an often misunderstood and inadequately researched subject.
This book provides broadened contexts, perspectives and understandings of "home," and provides a unique scholarly contribution to an often misunderstood and inadequately researched subject.
Thomas Barrie, AIA is Professor of Architecture at North Carolina State University, USA. His scholarship focuses on alternative histories of architecture and, in particular, the interrelationship of a culture's religious beliefs and socio-political agendas, and the communicative and ritual roles of the built environment. He is the author of The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture (Routledge, 2010), and Spiritual Path, Sacred Place: Myth Ritual and Meaning in Architecture (Shambhala, 1996), and co-editor of Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality (Barrie, Bermudez, and Tabb, Ashegate, 2015).
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue The Problem of House and Home Topics, Themes, and Analytical Methods 1. Homelessness and Homecoming Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles, and the Task of Architecture 2. A Home in the World House and Home in Literature 3. Origins Stories and Theories about the First House 4. Sacred Domesticities Houses for Divinity, Divinity of Home 5. House Tombs Domestic Abodes and Memorials 6. Materializing the Immaterial The House as a Means of Self-exploration and Expression 7. Domestic Ideologies Modernism, Postmodernism, and the House 8. Domestic Cultures The Twentieth-century House and Suburb Epilogue Making a Home in the World Notes Index
Prologue The Problem of House and Home Topics, Themes, and Analytical Methods 1. Homelessness and Homecoming Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles, and the Task of Architecture 2. A Home in the World House and Home in Literature 3. Origins Stories and Theories about the First House 4. Sacred Domesticities Houses for Divinity, Divinity of Home 5. House Tombs Domestic Abodes and Memorials 6. Materializing the Immaterial The House as a Means of Self-exploration and Expression 7. Domestic Ideologies Modernism, Postmodernism, and the House 8. Domestic Cultures The Twentieth-century House and Suburb Epilogue Making a Home in the World Notes Index
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