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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Herbert BangsPublisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company Imprint: Inner Traditions Bear and Company Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781594771323ISBN 10: 1594771324 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 30 November 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword 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 IndexReviewsThe thesis is well presented, enhanced by numerous illustrations and examples and enlivened by personal glimpses of leading designers and architects. Such clear-sighted candor and spiritual solutions are overdue, refreshing, and very encouraging. A superb clarion call for a restoration of beauty, integrity, and above all, sanity in modern architecture. . . . an excellent and precisely timed work that is encompassing, mature, and presented not only with sound reasoning but depth of feeling. . . . captures truths that we intuitively know, but haven't the training and background to articulate and illustrate as fully as is done in this fine work. This brave and perceptive work explores the debacle of modern architecture and points the way to a healthier new architecture, based on proportion and sacred principles, which reveres ecology and the cosmos. This book deserves to be on every architect's bookshelf. It demonstrates that much of modern architecture has become divorced from the principles of proportion used by almost all important buildings in historical times. This is a significant and important book that expresses the perennial wisdom that has been the basis of covert mystery school teachings throughout the ages. It is most pertinent for society at large as well as all students of the Arts and Architecture who are searching for the knowledge, understanding, and meaning of Plato's concepts of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth. Herbert Bangs brings extraordinary insights into his scholarly yet impassioned exploration of sacred architecture. . . . THE RETURN OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE is a clarion call for adopting a more intuitive approach to design and a better appreciation for the sources of divine inspiration. I give this book my highest recommendation. A superb clarion call for a restoration of beauty, integrity, and above all, sanity in modern architecture. . . . an excellent and precisely timed work that is encompassing, mature, and presented not only with sound reasoning but depth of feeling. . . . captures truths that we intuitively know, but haven ' t the training and background to articulate and illustrate as fully as is done in this fine work. & nbsp; This brave and perceptive work explores the debacle of modern architecture and points the way to a healthier new architecture, based on proportion and sacred principles, which reveres ecology and the cosmos. This book deserves to be on every architect ' s bookshelf. It demonstrates that much of modern architecture has become divorced from the principles of proportion used by almost all important buildings in historical times. & quot; Herbert Bangs brings extraordinary insights into his scholarly yet impassioned exploration of sacred architecture. . . . THE RETURN OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE is a clarion call for adopting a more intuitive approach to design and a better appreciation for the sources of divine inspiration. I give this book my highest recommendation.& quot; This is a significant and important book that expresses the perennial wisdom that has been the basis of covert mystery school teachings throughout the ages. It is most pertinent for society at large as well as all students of the Arts and Architecture who are searching for the knowledge, understanding, and meaning of Plato ' s concepts of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth. Herbert Bangs brings extraordinary insights into his scholarly yet impassioned exploration of sacred architecture. . . . THE RETURN OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE is a clarion call for adopting a more intuitive approach to design and a better appreciation for the sources of divine inspiration. I give this book my highest recommendation. The thesis is well presented, enhanced by numerous illustrations and examples and enlivened by personal glimpses of leading designers and architects. Such clear-sighted candor and spiritual solutions are overdue, refreshing, and very encouraging. . . . an excellent and precisely timed work that is encompassing, mature, and presented not only with sound reasoning but depth of feeling. . . . captures truths that we intuitively know, but haven't the training and background to articulate and illustrate as fully as is done in this fine work. A superb clarion call for a restoration of beauty, integrity, and above all, sanity in modern architecture. This book deserves to be on every architect's bookshelf. It demonstrates that much of modern architecture has become divorced from the principles of proportion used by almost all important buildings in historical times. This brave and perceptive work explores the debacle of modern architecture and points the way to a healthier new architecture, based on proportion and sacred principles, which reveres ecology and the cosmos. This is a significant and important book that expresses the perennial wisdom that has been the basis of covert mystery school teachings throughout the ages. It is most pertinent for society at large as well as all students of the Arts and Architecture who are searching for the knowledge, understanding, and meaning of Plato's concepts of Goodness, Beauty, and Truth. There are a few books that everyone should read, regardless of their discipline or degree of interest in esotericism--[This book] is one of them. . . . End the madness of modernity. Buy this book, give it away to everyone you know, and hope, pray, that its seeds will take root, and one day we can begin to build a world that reflects our vision of heaven as did our ancestors. There are a few books that everyone should read, regardless of their discipline or degree of interest in esotericism--[This book] is one of them. . . . End the madness of modernity. Buy this book, give it away to everyone you know, and hope, pray, that its seeds will take root, and one day we can begin to build a world that reflects our vision of heaven as did our ancestors. Author InformationHerbert 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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