Herbert Bangs

The Return of Sacred Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

The Golden Ratio and the End of Modernism

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Produktbeschreibung

An inspirational call for a return to the tenets of traditional architecture as a remedy for the dehumanizing standards of modern architecture • Explains how modern architecture is emblematic of our current estrangement from the spiritual principles that shaped humanity's greatest civilizations • Reveals how the ancient laws of sacred proportion and harmony can be restored The ugly buildings that characterize the modern landscape are inferior not only to the great cathedrals of medieval Europe and the temples of ancient Egypt and Greece, but even to lesser buildings of the more recent past. The great masterworks of our ancestors spoke to humanity's higher nature. Architect Herbert Bangs reveals how today's dysfunctional buildings bring out the worst in humanity, reinforcing that which is most base within us. He shows how, through the ancient laws of proportion and number, architecture once expressed the harmonious relationship between man and the cosmos. In early times, the architect worked within a sacred and esoteric tradition of creating structures through which human beings could gain insight into the nature of the divine reality. Today, that tradition has been abandoned in favor of narrowly defined utilitarian principles of efficiency and economy. In The Return of Sacred Architecture, Bangs provides the key to freeing architecture from the crude functionality of the twentieth century: the architects of the modern human landscape must find the deep-felt connection to the cosmos that guided the inner lives of those who built the temples of the past. The form of their buildings will then reflect the sacred patterns of geometry and proportion and bring forth greater harmony in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781620550519
• Artikelnr.: 49185635

Autorenporträt

Herbert Bangs was a designer for R. R. Buckminster Fuller's architectural firm, Geodesics, and was the Baltimore County architect and principal master planner. He and his wife live in a solar home he designed and built in Ruxton, Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by John Anthony West
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: A Radical Revelation
2. The Scientific Architecture of the Twentieth Century
The Architectural Revolution
The Wasteland
The Architecture of Alienation
3. Making the Modern Architect
The Failure of the Schools
The Plight of the Practicing Architect
4. The Materialist Paradigm
A New Model of the Cosmos
Nihilism, Despair, and the Decline of the Arts
5. The Return of the Spirit
The “Other Tradition”
The New Physics
The Mystical Vision
6. Intuition and the Creative Mind
The Mind and the Unconscious Mind
The Practice of Intuition
The Theory of the Archetype
7. Archetypes of Shelter
The Cave
The Clearing
The Garden
The Presence of Water
The Four Elements
8. Archetypes of Design
The Principle of Duality
Hierarchy
The Nature of Materials
9. The Resolution of Form
Form and Function
The Search for Form
The Mathematical Basis of Architecture
10. Geometry and Number
Recovering the Ancient Tradition
Principles of Sacred Geometry
The Meaning of Proportion
Architectural Examples
11. Architect and Cosmos
Anthropocosm
Magic and Symbol
The Parameters of Inspiration
12. A Time of Transition
Principle and Process
Architect and Society
The New Architecture
Notes
Bibliography
Index