Thomas Barrie

House and Home (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides broadened contexts, perspectives and understandings of "home," and provides a unique scholarly contribution to an often misunderstood and inadequately researched subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317366492
• Artikelnr.: 48416315

Autorenporträt

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