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Zarate, Eduardo. "The religious architecture of Alvar Aalto /." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61785.
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Heikinheimo, J. (Jaakko). "CINIS:a non-religious sacral space." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201705312269.
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Cinis is a small, module-structured pavilion. The aim of the work is to focus on the sacral phenomenons of the architecture in the contemporary world. Cinis is designed as an off-grid building, as it’s platform is supposed to be almost anywhere. In this approach, the site is in the hearth of Paris.
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Russell, Paul Floyd. "Reflections: Light and Structure in Religious Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34437.
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Light is the most sacred phenomenon and the presence of it in a place of worship is the greatest manifestation of God himself. Man can manufacture all the building materials needed to errect the greatest of structures, but only God can fill it with the light of the sun and make the materials come alive. Through the interplay of light and structure the building can seem to be alive. Through the proper execution of structure and material the building can sculpt light and define the time of day and season of year. This then became the genesis of the project; to sculpt light through natural materials and structure in order to bring glory to the creator and provide a sacred retreat for the weary, a rich interplay of light and material coming together to create a worshipful experience.Master of Architecture
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Williams, Malachy Marie. "Sacred space God's architectural design for God-centered worship /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Asif, Imtiaz. "A phenomenological interpretation of Islamic religious architecture based on Thiis-Evensen's Archetypes in Architecture." Kansas State University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/36119.
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Golmohammadi, Javad. "Wooden religious buildings and carved woodwork in central Iran." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288386.
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Rossi, Corinna. "Mathematics and design in ancient Egyptian religious and funerary architecture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621688.
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Slagan, David M. "The symbolic role of light in religious architecture with a critical interpretation of five churches in Columbus, Indiana." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864946.
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Daylighting, a form of illumination utilizing sunlight, has been used by architects as a method of symbolic expression in religious architecture. Light can be used to illustrate architectural comcepts or to satisfy the liturgical requirements of the particular religious denomination. This thesis illustrates some of the techniques employed by well-known architects, critiquing their successes and failures, and weighting them against more conventional works designed by lesser-known architects in order to discover what separates the ordinary from the extraordinary.The city of Columbus was chosen for its outstanding reputation of producing well known works of architecture, or "icons." Five churches have been singled out on the basis of their exemplary use of daylighting:First Christian ChurchNorth Christian Church First Baptist ChurchSt. Peter's Lutheran ChurchSandy Hook United Methodist ChurchResearch undertaken involved studying the philosophies of each architect, critically assessing the theories of light in earlier historical periods, and defining how some of these earlier concepts have influenced today's architects, if at all. By closely adhering to these principles, the architectural and spiritual value of the church increased greatly.Department of Architecture
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Sentosa, Lucas Shindunata. "Continuity and change in balinese dwelling environments : a socio-religious perspective." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23001.
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LITTLE, DAVID BRUCE. "VALUES IN CHURCH ARCHITECTURE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053547720.
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Brown, Deborah Taynter. "Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, patron of architecture, 1471-1503." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337455.
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Al, Abdaly Al Shareef Sharaf Nasir. "Housing in the historic and religious centre of Makkah." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.256260.
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Chogle, Shafeea. "The sacred and the everyday: exploring the relationship between religious space and public." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28077.
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This dissertation began with an interest in the relationship between religious space and the public realm, and a curiosity into the capacity of religious spaces to participate in and construct public. This interest, while conscious of global ideas surrounding the role of religion in the global south, is strongly rooted in the emerging urban conditions of the Delft settlement in Cape Town. Where historically the secular and the sacred have been separated along the same lines as the physical and spiritual, rational and irrational, modern and traditional, public and private (Gravelling, 2010: 198); this dissertation maintains to move beyond these separations and instead explore the overlaps, connections, and mediations, in a context where religious entities are actively taking hold of the spaces the secular has failed to fill. In this context, characterised by poor quality environments, high densities, and weak institutional presence, religious space has emerged into the public realm, thus becoming the intersection of public and private, of visible and invisible worlds. The project therefore departs from the position that religious space is a material asset capable of advancing social capital, facilitating networks, offering refuge, and providing a platform for the social and public life of a community.
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Aksamija, Azra 1976. "Our mosques are US : rewriting national history of Bosnia-Herzegovina through religious architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68415.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This dissertation examines how Bosnian Muslims construct their identity through the lens of rebuilt or newly built mosques following the systematic destruction of religious architecture during the 1992-1995 War. The stylistic diversity of contemporary mosques in the region, I argue, reflects competing visions of how contemporary Bosnia should deal with its own history of coexistence and war. By examining different identity formation processes on three scales (the building process, the regional, and the global scale), the dissertation argues that, aside from its religious functions, the contemporary mosque has become the primary locus where the emerging Bosniak nation can visually and symbolically shape and express its visions of itself. I begin by outlining how the cultural and political history of Bosnian Muslims has been "written" and "rewritten" through religious architecture since the fifteenth century. I then investigate how during the war of the 1990s the nationalist extremists instrumentalized religious architecture to facilitate the realization of their expansionist projects. While all ethno-national groups in Bosnia experienced significant war losses, Bosnian Muslims suffered the greatest human and architectural casualties. I argue that the extent and the genocidal nature of war violence against them has transformed the meaning of the mosque from that of a place of worship and of a signifier of religious-ethnic identity to that of the ethnic body of the Bosniak nation. The notion that the mosque stands in for the human body was internalized by Bosnian Muslims in the form of two novel and programmatically delineated mosque genres defined here as the Inat Mosque and the Memorial Mosque. The first results from identity construction in response to the national myths and territorial claims of the Serbs and Croats, while the second represents identity creation that is linked to the community's own internal processes of commemoration. These regional negotiations of identity are challenged by two competing global imperial ideologies introduced to Bosnia by the Saudi and Turkish donors and manifest in monumental mosques they finance. As local builders compete with these supra-national Islamic networks, contemporary mosque architecture in Bosnia has become a site of negotiation and frictions between global and local interests. Throughout, the analysis highlights the significance of ethnic symbols, long-term cultural factors, and global cultural flows in the creation of contemporary nations.
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Keiany, Mohsen. "Architecture, craft and religious symbolism in rural areas of Baluchistan in Pakistan." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518231.
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Kang, Jong-Jean. "The concept of 'sacredness' : Traditional and internet-based imagery in religious architecture." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511584.
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Sacredness is one of several human concepts which attempt to frame a spontaneous reaction to unknown and mysterious forces. The normal representation of sacredness is through religious imagery and practices. To address such an ideology needs an understanding of the essential concept of sacredness and a specific sense of its expression. The writer is a professional photographer, digital theorist, and also a Roman Catholic concerned with modern expressions of religious faith. The internet is one of the most effective methods of facilitating the depiction of human life today and I am interested in expressing forms of sacredness through a website and in addressing the difficulties this entails. I have analysed the methods and concepts used for the representation of sacredness through various media, and intend to make an appropriate example as an educational resource, making creative use of new media and photography. The primary aim of this research is to present case studies of numerous elements of sacredness, through a study of the Bulguksa Buddhist Temple, based on the website which I have built (http: //bulguksa. pe. kr) and my own photographs. It is intended it will become a valuable research example of delivering the artist's intentions through the internet or other media. The body of work of this investigation divides into two parts. The first is two forms of practical artworks which are; a website of Bulguk Temple and a photographic artist's book, entitled `The sacred light in silence'. The second is a written component which is divided into two books. Book 1 consists of theoretical research around the concept of the sacred in religious architecture through the five research questions and includes case studies of historical and contemporary artists and their artworks. Book 2 consists of critical research of my artworks, the website and selected photographs with my original analysis methodology. The four items of the two parts - Book 1, Book 2, the Artist's Book and a CD-rom - are enclosed in a wooden box, designed by me and based on Korean traditional furniture design (for reasons expanded upon in the text). In conclusion: visualising sacredness is dependent upon retaining its meanings and properties during the transformation from three dimensions (real world) to a two dimensional plane of expression. Human emotion manifests itself in response to internal and external stimuli. That is, the spiritual essence of sacredness can be fully evoked by the combination of human feeling and reverence, and the magnification of the sacred, by means of external visual media. This thesis explores the nature of sacredness and its visualisation through photography and the website. vii
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Chen, Chie-peng. "Taiwanese vernacular architecture and settlements : the influence of religious beliefs and practices." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19622.
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In analysing architectural environments, several approaches can be used. In this thesis, a religious viewpoint is adopted to interpret Taiwanese architecture and settlements, and the relationships between religious beliefs and the built environment are therefore mainly emphasised. Three important Chinese traditional life notions, feng-shui (geomancy), the supernatural, and ethics have been applied to interpret those relationships throughout the thesis. The thesis is composed of two main parts covering, first, vernacular Taiwanese houses, and, second, settlements. A distinction is also made between static and dynamic aspects. Statically, it is shown how the Taiwanese people, by means of the three traditional notions of feng-shui, the supernatural and ethics, arrange their architectural spaces and spatial elements and engage the whole construction process in building their vernacular houses and settlements in order to maintain a harmonious relationship between gods, ancestral spirits and ghosts. But, an analysis is also made of various religious activities which are intimately related to vernacular houses and settlements to show how they have been applied to further improve the harmonious relationship dynamically. The historical, social, religious and architectural background to the development of Taiwan are described first of all. The two stages of the process of the construction of Taiwanese architecture, first the selection, by virtue of the concepts of feng-shui, of an auspicious site for a building and its spatial elements, and, second, the holding of a series of ceremonies which seek to unite man and nature, and man and supernature, are then outlined. The concepts of feng-shui, the supernatural and ethics are used to interpret the meanings of the main spaces of vernacular houses and the relationships between those spaces and many rituals of Taiwanese life. It is shown how the early immigrant society of Taiwan, as a result of social and economic factors, was transformed into an indigenous society, in which different groups lived together in settlements. A relationship between the layout of these settlements and the cosmos was developed by the use of yasheng objects and rituals along with Chinese concepts of the cosmos.
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Xu, Tian Yang Kevin. "Building Ecotheology: Nature Veneration in Architecture and its Contributions to Environmental Stewardship." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592171201279149.
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Autorino, Salvatore. "Memory of Islam : culture and politics in sixteenth-century religious architecture of Mexico and Peru." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63202.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-116).
This thesis presents a comparative study of two church typologies employed in the Spanish American colonies during the sixteenth century. The first, developed in Mexico, is the Open Chapel; the second, which I call "Lateral" Church, was very common in Peru and is characterized by the shift of the main entrance from the front to the side of the nave. Their interest lies in the fact that, in a context marked by the spread of Renaissance architecture in Europe and in the American colonies, they represent two among the most anti-classical examples of churches. Furthermore, they are interesting because their anti-classicism can be referred back to the Islamic civilization, which had strongly shaped the history and culture of the Iberian peninsula in eight centuries of continuous presence. The comparison between two different, and not even contemporary contexts aims to reveal of the modifications of cultural expressions in relation to varying degrees of political control. Mexico and Peru, in fact, were discovered, conquered, and populated with different modalities and in different periods within the sixteenth century. This study reaches the following conclusions: 1) Both the Mexican Open chapels and the Peruvian "Lateral" churches reflect, at various degrees, the adoption of a concept of space borrowed from the Hispano-Islamic tradition. 2) The use of such spatial concepts diminishes and becomes very subtle towards the end of the sixteenth century. This phenomenon is tightly related to the re-structuring of the relation Islam and Christendom in Europe, which, in turn, is the result of another process, the "invention" of European cultural identity. In the Americas, in fact, the spread of classic architecture was not only the symbol of the imposition of a new system of power, but also a test for the self-definition of Europe itself. 3) The development of these types in the New World has two overlapping layers of interpretation. First, it can be seen as the reflection of the dialectics of power between the Hispano-Islamic collective cultural heritage and the imperialistic agenda of the colonization, which employed authority and control as its main subjugation tools. Second, it can be seen as a conscious appropriation of forms essentials to the purpose of colonization. These church-types were adopted to display the social and ethnic inferiority of the Indians in front of the conquistadores. 4) Finally, also for the Indians these churches had a double layer of meaning. On the one hand, they represented the architecture of the Spaniards, and therefore the symbol of their subjugation. On the other, these churches provided the forms through which the Natives re -constructed their own identity, in a context marked by the sudden collapse of the traditional cultural structure.
by Salvatore Autorino.
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Potts, Charlotte R. "Accommodating the divine : the form and function of religious buildings in Latial and Etruscan settlements c.900-500 B.C." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0befda08-4f9a-4a4b-8969-31f5c29b2108.
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This thesis examines the changing form and function of non-funerary cult buildings in early Latial and Etruscan settlements in order to better describe and understand the advent of monumental temples in the archaeological record. It draws on a significant quantity of material excavated in the past forty years and developments in relevant theoretical frameworks to reconstruct the changing appearance of cult buildings from huts to shrines and temples (Chapters 2 to 4), and to place monumental examples within wider religious, topographical, and functional contexts (Chapters 5 to 7). This broader perspective allows a more accurate assessment of the extent to which monumental temples represent continuity and discontinuity with earlier religious architecture, and furthermore clarifies the respective roles of Latium and Etruria in the transformation of cult buildings into distinctive, prominent parts of the built environment. Although it is possible to find many different accounts of religious monumentalisation in existing scholarship, this thesis holds that traditional narratives no longer accurately reflect the archaeological evidence. It sets out a sequence of developments in which early religious architecture was a dynamic, rather than conservative, phenomenon. It demonstrates that temples were not the inevitable product of a natural progression from open-air votive deposition to monumentality, or simply an imported concept, but rather a deliberate response to the opportunities offered by an increasingly mobile Mediterranean population. It also contends that Latium played a more important role in formulating the characteristic components and functions of central Italic temples than previously thought. This thesis consequently offers a new account of early religious architecture in western central Italy as well as an alternative interpretation of its monumentalisation.
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Philon, Helene. "Religious and royal architecture of the early Bahmani period (748/1347-825/1422)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424324.
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Mok, Kai-wa Andy. "Bishop Hill : transformation and redevelopment of the HK Anglican Church Headquarters /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25951415.
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Mello, Ricardo Bianca de. "A cultura da crença: uma reflexão sobre o espaço simbólico e o simbolismo na arquitetura religiosa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16138/tde-19092007-143534/.
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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo explorar a espacialidade simbólica em arquitetura. Para tanto, principia expondo de maneira sucinta conceitos fundamentais de semiótica arquitetônica, situando o debate do simbolismo em arquitetura dentro de uma abordagem comunicacional do fenômeno arquitetônico. Em seguida expõe algumas considerações acerca da questão mais ampla do sentido em arquitetura, da qual entende-se que a questão do simbolismo em arquitetura faça parte. Apesar de partir inicialmente de uma visão vulgar do conceito de símbolo, baseada livremente na conceituação dada por Charles Peirce, esta dissertação explora também diferentes abordagens oriundas da semiótica, da lingüística, da psicanálise, da filosofia e da própria arquitetura, de forma a encontrar novos elementos que a auxilie a alcançar uma posição particular em relação ao símbolo, adequada ao seu uso em teoria da arquitetura. Partindo desta exploração do conceito de símbolo, a dissertação prossegue analisando a construção do símbolo em arquitetura ? seus mecanismos e aplicação. Trata então do simbolismo estrutural, implícito e identificado com o edifício em si, e do simbolismo aplicado, explícito e aposto à edificação. Para tanto parte da distinção que Venturi, Brown e Izenour fazem do simbolismo do ?pato? e do ?galpão decorado?. Em sua segunda parte a dissertação oferece exemplos do simbolismo em arquitetura religiosa, não se limitando a uma tradição ou a um contexto específico. A intenção é ilustrar o debate teórico desenvolvido na primeira parte ao mesmo tempo em que se aprofunda a questão de um simbolismo arquitetônico específico ? aquele da arquitetura religiosa. Além de uma introdução geral ao simbolismo do edifício religioso são analisadas as diferentes escalas de manifestação do símbolo no edifício: em sua localização, implantação, forma e conteúdo. A dissertação conclui com uma reflexão acerca de algumas das questões suscitadas e uma especulação acerca de caminhos possíveis para futuras pesquisas.The aim of this dissertation is to explore the symbolic quality of space in architecture. Hence, it begins showing in a concise way basic concepts of architectural semiotics, placing the debate of the symbolism in architecture inside a communicational approach of the architectural phenomenon. After that it displays some considerations about the broadest question of the meaning in architecture, of which one understands that the question of architectural symbolism is a portion. Despite starting out from a vulgar concept of symbol, based freely in its given conceptualization by Charles Peirce, this dissertation explores also different approaches deriving from the semiotics, the linguistics, the psychoanalysis, the philosophy and the architecture itself, in such a way to find new elements that assist it to reach a particular position in relation to the symbol, proper for its use in architectural theory. Leaving from this exploitation of the symbol concept this dissertation goes on analyzing the construction of the symbol in architecture ? its mechanisms and application. It deals then with the structural symbolism, implicit and identified with the building in itself, and with the applied symbolism, explicit and attached to the building. For that, it parts from the distinction that Venturi, Brown and Izenour make of the symbolism of the \"duck\" and of the symbolism of the \"decorated shed\". In its second part this dissertation presents examples of the symbolism in religious architecture, not limiting itself to a tradition or a specific context. The intention is to illustrate the developed theoretical debate of its first section altogether deepening the debate of a specific architectural symbolism ? that of the religious architecture. Beyond a general introduction to the symbolism of the religious building, the different scales of manifestation of the symbol in the building are analyzed: in its localization, implantation, form and content. This dissertation concludes with a reflection concerning some of the stirred up questions and a speculation about possible paths for future researches.
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Wilson, Dominique Beth. "Shaman, Sage, Priest, Prophet and Magician: Exploring the Architecture of the Religious Wise Man." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10119.
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Little attention has been given to the archetype of the wise old man, both by Carl G. Jung and by contemporary scholars indebted to his methodology. This is especially relevant when compared to other common Jungian archetypes such as the ‘hero’, the ‘mother’ and the ‘trickster.’ As such, the wise man can be viewed as a neglected or overlooked figure whose image is so familiar and recognisable that his purpose and representations have not currently received the depth of analysis and explanation that has been given to other archetypal images. This thesis identifies the religious wise man as an important figure within the contexts of culture and religion. Its aim is to not only to explore the ‘archetype’ of the wise man, but to go beyond that rather superficial – and indeed, academically problematic – notion, and determine what I term the ‘architecture’ of the wise man. This architecture consists of the structural elements (social, institutional, historical) and identifiers (costume, calling, education), that separate the wise man, and in particular the religious wise man, from other male ‘archetypal’ figures. In using the term ‘architecture’ I aim to identify the arrangement of concrete elements and characteristics - rather than psychological or inner ‘essences’ - which are significant in the construction and maintenance of the religious wise man figure in specific cultural contexts. The dissertation presents five possible categories of the religious wise man - the shaman, sage, priest, prophet and magician – identifying common elements and distinguishing features that may then be redesigned and adapted in different and unique forms appropriate to each manifestation of the religious wise man. Once these key characteristics are identified, they create a schema that can be employed to classify a range of religious wise man figures into the appropriate category.
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Ho, Puay-peng. "Chinese Buddhist monastic architecture in the Sui and Tang dynasties : a study of the spatial conception." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319529.
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Holm, Filip. "The Architecture of Pilgrimage : A study on the Ziyara Bogal and charismatic authority in the Tijaniyya." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Religionsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-36143.
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Pilgrimage plays an important role in many religious traditions. Indeed, one of the five pillars of Islam is the Hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim is expected to perform at least once in their life. But this isn’t the only ritual of its kind present in Islam. Indeed, a common practice in Sufism is the Ziyara – a pilgrimage or visit to a saint or the tomb of a saint. This study aims to give a comprehensive overview of one of these pilgrimages – the Ziyara Bogal of the Tijaniyya Sufi order. Through observational methods and interviews, the present thesis will look at strategies of ritualization and charismatic authority, as well as the political implications of the pilgrimage in West African society. Extensive fieldwork was conducted in Senegal, The Gambia and in the diasporic community in Sweden both during the pilgrimage itself and several months before and after, and theories relating to the main themes (ritualization, charismatic authority) is used to analyze the material. As such, the study will map out multiple significant aspects of the ziyara and give an insight into how Islam is lived and practiced in the region.
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Niemann, Paul Joseph. "Building a church facilitating constructive conversation in the parish community on liturgical assembly and architecture /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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PENONI, FRANCESCA. "The Armenian Religious Architecture in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: between Memory and New Tendencies." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2823957.
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Dias, Ana Catarina Moreira. "Arquitectura religiosa." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12475.
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Gabr, Aly Hatem. "The influence of traditional Muslim beliefs on medieval religious architecture : of the Bahri Mamluk period." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534491.
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Mamlük medieval religious architecture was designed and built through a process which involved a deep knowledge of Sufism, the inner dimension of Islam. Through the symbolism implicit in this process, the external, limited, and sensible forms of these buildings carried within themselves inner transcendental qualities. This thesis adopts the traditionalist approach which has its foundation in objective truth based on Islamic metaphysical interpretations. This approach is applied to reach the symbolism of medieval religious buildings, focusing specifically on the Bahri Mamlük period in Cairo as a case study. The need for such a study is twofold: firstly, to know the truth about the intent and design process of the medieval Mamlük tradition; and secondly, to see if it is possible to formulate new guidelines for contemporary architects to use in today's mosque designs. Medieval historical sources emphasize that the Mamlük society had its roots in Sufi thought. Sultäns, emirs, scientists, intellectuals, the common people, and even some of the `ulama', respected and participated in Sufi rites. The hypothesis behind this study is that the Sufi thought which pervaded Mamluk society at large must have influenced the craftsmen who produced artifacts, particularly the sacred ones. A purely historical approach is used to introduce the buildings of the case study. This immediately raises several queries that have either been answered inadequately, or remain unanswered within a stylistic and historical approach; this shows the limitations of its scope of interpretation. By adopting the traditionalist approach it is possible to re-create the traditional Mamlük context applying both exoteric and esoteric dimensions of interpretation to these buildings. The context consists of both the setting and the design and building processes involved in creating a traditional product, as well as the traditional view of the relationship between the Süfi masters, the Süfi craftsmen, and the general craftsmen who were not necessarily Sufis. It is here that the relation between the symbol and the act of "creation" of traditional forms is revealed from a SO point of view to imitate the process of Divine Creation. This line of argument is adopted and applied to the different notions of architectural form which are in turn analyzed from a traditional viewpoint. Subsequently, specific architectural analyses reveal several layers of understanding in the symbolism of traditional religious buildings: the level of the elements, the level of the relationships which incorporates several elements visually and results in a second layer of symbolism, the temporal level through the sequence of spaces of a building which gives yet a further dimension to this wholistic system of symbolism. Bafiri Mamlük cases are analyzed at these three levels, and the results confirm the value of the methodology adopted in this thesis. The findings bring about a more vivid picture of how and why a traditional member of the society designed and used these buildings down to their constituents. It is at this level where architect, craftsman, and user are unified in their relations to the traditional artefact that the symbol of unity is found to be operative. The thesis ends in a general review of how a traditional prototype would have been created in the Bafiri Mamlük period. The benefits of adopting the traditionalist approach in order to re-create a lost tradition are then discussed. This is followed by a review of the basic differences between the modern and traditional processes, which sheds light on the extent of our contemporary displacement from our traditional past. The question of the relevance of this study to the contemporary situation is raised. It is here that it becomes evident that there can be no return to traditional principles while living in a modernistic society governed by modern values. The suggestion that is set forth is that there must neither be a faked tradition nor a faked modernity. If the contemporary architect is to make use of such traditional findings and symbolisms, he must first adapt his method of form-creation by learning from the principles of the traditional process so as to be able to reuse them to fit the society's contemporary needs and using the means of today.
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Dungan, Katherine Ann. "Religious Architecture and Borderland Histories: Great Kivas in the Prehispanic Southwest, 1000 to 1400 CE." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595696.
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Historically, archaeologists working on non-state societies have tended to interpret religion and large-scale religious architecture as necessarily integrative, that is, as naturalizing the social order or producing an abiding sense of community. I argue here that this focus on integration has limited our ability to understand how and why religion changed through time and how religion may have been a driver of social change. We will benefit from considering the political dimensions of religious practice in non-state societies as much as in more "complex" settings. This study explores the articulation of religious practice and religious architecture with social and spatial boundaries in the prehispanic U.S. Southwest. In particular, I examine variability and change in rectangular great kivas—large, semi-subterranean religious structures—in west-central New Mexico and east-central Arizona between 1000 and 1400 CE in relationship to socially diverse contexts that might be viewed as borderlands or frontiers. The study pulls together two broads strands of research. The first is an examination of the unusual great kiva at the thirteenth-century CE Fornholt site (LA 164471) near Mule Creek, New Mexico, in relation to the broader history of the surrounding Upper Gila area. This portion of the research is based on two seasons of excavation at Fornholt and on an examination of records and ceramic collections from the Upper Gila. I suggest that the Upper Gila may be considered a borderland or frontier through time and that viewing Fornholt as a borderland site sheds light on the site's material culture, including its great kiva. The second strand of research is a comparison of great kiva architecture and assemblages across the larger study area based on the examination of museum collections and the aggregation of published and unpublished architectural data. The broader study demonstrates that, while these great kivas make up a coherent tradition and fit within the larger world of southwestern religion, great kivas in borderland contexts show experimentation and change in ways that more centrally located great kivas do not. I argue that this diversity can be viewed in light of the negotiation of social boundaries in borderland contexts, including the role of great kivas as political venues or contested spaces.
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Pereira, Sandra Isabel Carvalho. "Ermidas do litoral algarvio, casos de estudo." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/23323.
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O Algarve é conhecido essencialmente por ser uma região com uma localização geoestratégica privilegiada, apresentando
um carácter cultural muito próprio e uma grande beleza paisagista. No entanto, nesta região é possível desvendar um vasto
património arquitectónico disseminado ao longo de todo o território algarvio.
A presente dissertação de mestrado visa estudar parte desse património, neste caso património arquitectónico religioso: as
ermidas, que surgem da necessidade de construir um lugar dedicado ao culto religioso, de modo a criar uma ligação com o
sagrado, mas em vários casos particularmente com o mar.
As ermidas distinguem-se das outras construções religiosas pela sua modesta dimensão e essencialmente pela sua localização
em lugares ermos que convidam à compenetração mística/ religiosa e a uma maior aproximação com o divino.
Partindo do conceito geral e fazendo uma análise que procura entender as tipologias, influências e características das ermidas
existentes no território algarvio, serão desenvolvidos dois casos de estudo que pelas suas particularidades de enquadramento
são relevantes do aprofundamento dessa análise.
No total das quase 100 ermidas analisadas, com as mais diversificadas funções percebe-se que são muitas as que caíram
no esquecimento, acabando por ruir. Este tema contribui para chamar a atenção da importância deste património na nossa
cultura, assim como contribui para a salvaguarda destes exemplos cujo interesse importa realçar; Abstract:
The Algarve is known mainly for being a region with a privileged geostrategic location, with unique cultural characteristic and a
beautiful landscape. However, this region can reveal a wide architectural patrimony which is scattered throughout the Algarve
territory.
This dissertation aims to study part of that heritage, in this case religious architectural heritage: The little Chapels, which
arise from the need to build a place dedicated to religion, in order to create a connection with the sacred, but in many cases
particularly with the sea.
Chapels are distinguished from other religious programmes for their small size and mainly by their location in remote places
that invite us to a mystical interpenetration and to be closer to the divine. Starting from the general concept and making an
analysis that seeks to understand the kinds, influences and characteristics of the existing Chapels in the Algarve territory, in
which, two cases of study that by their properties are relevant to a deep thought.
In total, almost 100 chapels were studied, having each the most diversed functions, even if some of them are unfortunately
falling into oblivion. This subject helps to draw attention to the importance of such edified legacy in our culture, as well to state
an intention towards the safeguarding of these examples whose interest is to be noted
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Boutsikas, Efrosyni. "Astronomy and ancient Greek cult : an application of archaeoastronomy to Greek religious architecture, cosmologies and landscapes." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/7566.
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This thesis examines the relationship between ancient Greek religion, cult practice, sanctuary buildings and astronomy. Its geographical range extends across the modern territory of Greece; chronologically it covers the thirteenth to second centuries BC, from a period before the development of self-standing religious architecture to the most important phases of temple construction. Data was collected from 125 structures, giving priority to sacred structures but also considering ‘secular’ buildings (hypostyle halls and stoas; for stoas, the extent of the interior illuminated by the sun at different times of year is calculated, to show the significance of orientation in conjunction with function). The hypothesis that there is an astronomical orientation in Greek religious structures is tested, and the data sample divided by geographic location, date of construction, and deity (distinguishing chthonic and ouranic cults). Case studies (Apollo at Delphi, Artemis Orthia at Sparta and Messene, the Erechtheion at Athens, Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, and a number of Thesmophoria) are presented in order to examine the sample in detail, taking into account mythology, cult, rites and the local total perceived environment (land, sky and horizon). The analysis shows that religious structures were, in at least some prominent cases, oriented towards stars and constellations, not the solar range as has often been claimed. Celestial bodies were significantly integrated with the cyclical ceremonies associated with a temple, the rites performed, and the deity’s attributes. This complex association of the night sky and landscape influenced the design, planning and orientation of religious buildings. This study advances understanding of the role of landscapes in Greek religious practice, establishes the importance of astronomy and cosmology in ancient Greek religion, and demonstrates how this religious system was expressed at the local level in myths and the performance of cult rites.
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Town, Edward. "A house 're-edified' : Thomas Sackville and the transformation of Knole 1605-1608." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6893/.
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Thomas Sackville was a courtier and a politician during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Shortly prior to his death in April 1608, Sackville began work on his largest architectural project, the transformation of the archbishops' greathouse at Knole, near Sevenoaks in Kent. The house holds a seminal position in the landscape of country houses of the period, and as Sackville's only surviving house, is an important monument to his ambitions as patron. However, Sackville's significance as a patron has often been underplayed, in the same way that his position as a leading politician and a minister of state has often been seen as only a brief interlude between the hegemony of William and Robert Cecil – Sackville's predecessor and successor as Lord Treasurer respectively. The research of this thesis focuses on Sackville's transformation of his house at Knole, highlighting the fact that during his political apogee, Sackville was a leading patron of his day, who employed the finest artisans, craftsmen and artificers available to him. In the historiography of English architectural history, Knole is often sidelined, and seen as the last moment of Elizabethan building practice before the innovations of the Jacobean period. This not only underplays the complexity of the building's development, but also detracts from what Thomas Sackville aimed to achieve during his campaign of building at Knole between 1605 and 1608. New evidence has afforded a fuller insight into Thomas Sackville's role as patron and also the extent to which his numerous intellectual and cultural interests were brought to bear on the transformation of the house. This evidence suggests that what Sackville achieved at Knole was a remarkable synthesis of what was inherited from the existing fabric and what was newly built, and the product of this synthesis was a house that reflected both Sackville's intellectual and political ambitions.
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Gregory, Alden John Dudley. "Knole : an architectural and social history of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s house, 1456-1538." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6896/.
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This thesis analyses new evidence for both the architectural and social histories of the late-medieval Archbishops of Canterburys‘ house at Knole in Sevenoaks, Kent. Built and occupied by a succession of archbishops between 1456 and 1538, Knole is today regarded as one of the most significant medieval houses in Great Britain. Using newly discovered summary building accounts the thesis suggests a new interpretation of the building phases of the house. This has reattributed most of the major phases to Archbishop Bourchier (c.1411 – 1486) and suggests that by the time of his death much of the extant fabric had been completed. Significantly it also suggests, for the first time, that Bourchier may have been responsible for building the ranges surrounding Green Court; a part of the house that has previously been attributed to later owners of Knole. The thesis also suggests that of Bourchier‘s successors at Knole only Archbishop Warham (c.1450 – 1532) made any significant alterations to the building and attributes to him the timber-framed ranges around Pheasant Court and the east front, including the Brown Gallery. In addition to its architecture, the thesis also considers how a house like Knole was used by the archbishops and discusses the evidence for its differing functions. It compares Knole to other late-medieval houses and palaces, most significantly to the nearby house at Otford; another property built by the Archbishops of Canterbury. The thesis concludes that, alongside some ritual and business functions, Knole‘s primary role was as a country retreat away from the demands of Court and politics.
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Rovira, i. Marquès Maria del Mar. "Casa de la Congregació de la Missió a Barcelona. De l’església de Sant Sever i Sant Carles Borromeu dels paüls a la parròquia mercedària de Sant Pere Nolasc (1703-2017)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667213.
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L'objecte de la present tesi, que duu per títol Casa de la Congregació de la Missió. De l’església de Sant Sever i Sant Carles Borromeu dels paüls a la parròquia mercedària de Sant Pere Nolasc (1703-2017), és l'estudi històric dels aspectes artístics i arquitectònics que caracteritzaren la casa de la Congregació de la Missió a Barcelona, en ser concebuda a partir d’uns preceptes constructius singulars i paradigmàtics en el context artístic català del Set-cents. Així mateix, el treball mostra els resultats de la investigació relacionada amb l’evolució estructural del conjunt per tal d’explicar l’adaptació de l'edifici a les successives modificacions dels seus usos i a l’entramat urbà que l'emparava. Per consegüent, s’han analitzat les circumstàncies relatives al seu establiment el 1703 al Principat, la seva evolució al llarg de tot el segle XVIII i primer terç del XIX, les conseqüències de la secularització d’aquest espai sacre i la seva transformació en conjunt civil entre el 1809 i el 1942, per finalment estudiar el procés d’enderroc del cenobi i la rehabilitació d’un dels seus elements constitutius, el temple de la Casa de la Missió del carrer Tallers, per tal de desenvolupar el procés d’adequació a la nova trama urbana i al culte mercedari.
L’estudi de la fundació, del desenvolupament i de les vicissituds que envoltaren l’establiment de les Cases de la Congregació de la Missió a Barcelona, permet donar valor als seus elements artístics i arquitectònics, a les mostres de pintura mural que encara s’hi conserven i als béns patrimonials mobles que formaren part dels conjunts; així com reconèixer, a través d’aquests casos d’estudi, els condicionants que envoltaren la transformació dels conjunts cultuals de Barcelona en edificis per a ús militar a partir de la Guerra del Francès, així com les problemàtiques derivades d’aquestes ocupacions pel que fa a la gestió i conservació del seu patrimoni.
L’estructura del treball es planteja en tres blocs principals que es corresponen amb tres períodes temporals rellevants per a la història del nostre objecte d’estudi: en un primer bloc (1703-1808) analitzem l’establiment de les Cases de
la Missió a Barcelona, els seus aspectes arquitectònics i el seu patrimoni artístic, així com estudiem la possible concepció d’un tipus constructiu propi de la Congregació de la Missió, a partir de l’observació de les característiques que presentaven les altres cases construïdes al Principat durant el Set-cents i a l’inici del Vuit-cents. El segon bloc (1809-1942) tracta l’adaptació dels conjunts als usos civils imposats i les seves conseqüències en el patrimoni moble i immoble de la congregació; i, per acabar, es dedica un tercer bloc (1943-2017) a l’enderroc dels conjunts i la rehabilitació d’un espai subsistent en concret, l’església dels paüls, per a convertir-se en una de les esglésies parroquials que caracteritzen el paisatge urbanístic del barri del Raval.
El caràcter d’aquesta investigació és històric, amb un objecte d’estudi de naturalesa artística i d’àmbit local, però considerem que les seves conclusions són extrapolables més enllà de la ciutat de Barcelona. Considerem que el camp d’estudi és interdisciplinari, ja que es basa en una recerca interessada en aspectes geogràfics, culturals, religiosos, polítics i econòmics a Barcelona. El marc teòric general, per tant, és el de la història de l'art, i els específics són els estudis sociològics de l'art i els estudis sobre la gestió i conservació del patrimoni artístic moble i immoble. En termes metodològics, les tècniques d'investigació aplicades han estat la revisió bibliogràfica, el treball documental i el treball de camp; i l’enfocament metodològic observa una primera anàlisi dels condicionants que van caracteritzar l’establiment, construcció i transformació dels conjunts cenobials del Raval barceloní en època moderna; per tal de continuar l’escomesa del nivell específic de la recerca, en el qual s’analitza l’objecte d’estudi per conèixer la seva naturalesa, la seva relació amb el territori i elements urbans que l’envolten, l’estat i el desenvolupament històric de les seves instal·lacions i la seva gestió, entre d’altres.The following investigation, entitled Casa de la Congregació de la Missió a Barcelona. De l’església de Sant Sever i Sant Carles Borromeu dels paüls a la parròquia mercedària de Sant Pere Nolasc (1703-2017), is conceived as a historical study of the artistic and architectural features characterizing the house of the Congregation of the Mission in Barcelona, because of their singularity in the artistic context of the eighteenth century in Catalonia. Similarly, this work showcase the results of the investigation related to the structural evolution of the Vincentians' residence in order to explain the adaptation of the building to the successive changes in use and of the urban framework surrounding it. Therefore, we have analysed the circumstances of its establishment in 1703 in Catalonia, its evolution during the eighteenth and first third of the nineteenth century, the effects of the secularization of the sacred space and its transformation to a civil building between 1809 and 1942, to finally study the dismantling of the convent and the rehabilitation of one of its elements, the church of the House of the Mission of Tallers street, in order to develop the project of adaptation to the new urban premises and the Mercedarian Order's cult.
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Salaris, Davide. "Space and rite in Elymais: Considerations on Elymaean religious Architecture and rock reliefs during the Arsacid Period." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11439.
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Central to this thesis is the identification of religious architecture in a region which has a special position in Ancient Iran, the mountainous area of Khuzestan known to classical sources under the name Elymais. This area can be considered Iranian only due to its geographical position, since its population was not of Iranian origin. A more direct approach to the study of Elymaean archaeology concerns not just the Susiana plain – which shows a strong Greek and Semitic influence – but also the sites with major rock reliefs (Tang-e Sarvak, Shimbar, Izeh-Malamir), as well as the religious architecture of Bard-e Neshandeh and Masjed-e Soleyman. This study will try to prove, working from religious architecture in Elymais of the Arsacid era, that there were hereditary ties (historical, archaeological, philological) between the Elymaeans and the Elamites, the ancient inhabitants of these territories (Ancient Elam). Given the strong relationship between Elam and neighbouring Mesopotamia, the possible presence of Mesopotamian or other foreign influences in the religious architecture and consequently the use of these types in an Elymaean context can be examined in detail. A review will be made of previously accepted hypotheses of Elymais and its population. The cultural-historical and religious interactions that occurred in this area will be examined in an attempt to establish a nexus of identity for the people of Elymais. This work aims to bring together, perhaps for the first time, diverse studies concerning Elymais: archaeological, historical, philological, numismatic and religious. This key goal will be pursued to provide a platform for their analysis as a corpus. To achieve this, details of archaeological and historical contexts including locations, excavation reports, grave goods, descriptions of monuments and observations regarding rock reliefs have been collected from a number of available sources, many of them in the form of short articles.
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Oom, Gonçalo Maria Gonçalves Calaveiras Félix. "Estabelecer um percurso redesenho e requalificação da avenida marginal de São Tomé." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17532.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.A presente dissertação parte, através de um enquadramento histórico, do reconhecimento da preponderância dos edifícios religiosos no desenvolvimento das cidades, particularmente nas ilhas de São Tomé e Príncipe. Focando-se no contexto particular da cidade de São Tomé que se foi desenvolvendo ao longo da Baia Ana Chaves, analisa-se como a construção de edifícios religiosos e seus espaços públicos adjacentes, potenciou de forma determinante a evolução do traçado urbano da Capital. Como parte integrante desta análise, apresenta-se também a relação inerente destes edifícios, assim como toda a cidade, com o Mar, característica comum às várias cidades coloniais portuguesas. A linha mestra de crescimento urbano, que sempre funcionou como elemento unificador dos edifícios religiosos principais da cidade e símbolo preponderante da relação da cidade com o Mar, é a sua Avenida Marginal. Atualmente bastante degradada e muito aquém do seu potencial verdadeiro. Portanto em paralelo à análise referida apresenta-se um projeto de desenvolvimento urbano de toda a Avenida Marginal, ancorado na reabilitação e redesenho dos espaços públicos adjacentes aos seis edifícios religiosos que a pontuam. Desta forma, pretende-se através de espaços públicos qualificados e diferenciados nos seus usos, criar um maior equilíbrio na vivência da cidade, distribuindo-a ao longo de toda a Baia, em vez da centralizar nas zonas dos mercados, como está atualmente. De forma a completar esse percurso, restabelecendo parte das antigas romarias da cidade, pretende-se ainda apresentar um projeto arquitetónico que permita dotar a cidade de um sétimo edifício religioso, também ele como impulsionador do crescimento urbano na zona norte da Baia. O edifício proposto, tendo em conta a maioria religiosa são-tomense, será uma igreja católica, procurando ser um local de encontro social e espiritual, que vá de encontro a expectava dos fiéis. O edifício e o seu espaço envolvente terão como desafio, respeitando a tradição católica e cultura africana, conseguir de forma contemporânea enquadrar-se dentro da linha dos seis edifícios religiosos já referidos. Este deve funcionar como parte integrante do percurso da marginal e não como elemento de exceção, de forma a criar relações dinâmicas e fluídas em vez de um percurso de sentido único.
ABSTRACT: The present dissertation starts with a historical framework, recognizing the preponderance of religious buildings in the development of cities, particularly in the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. Focusing on the particular context of the city of São Tomé that has been developed along the Ana Chaves Bay, it is analyzed how the construction of religious buildings and their adjacent public spaces, potentiated in a decisive way the evolution of the urban layout of the Capital. As an integral part of this analysis, the inherent relation of these buildings, as well as the whole city, with the Sea, characteristic common to the several Portuguese colonial cities, is also presented. The main line of urban growth, which has always functioned as unifying element of the city's main religious buildings and a preponderant symbol of the city's relationship with the Sea, is its Marginal Avenue. Currently very degraded and far below its true potential. Therefore, in parallel to the analysis referred to above, there is an urban development project of the entire Avenida Marginal, anchored in the rehabilitation and redesign of the public spaces adjacent to the six religious buildings that punctuate it. In this way, it is intended through public spaces qualified and differentiated in their uses, to create a greater balance in the experience of the city, distributing it throughout bay, instead of centralizing in the zones of the markets, as it is currently. In order to complete this route, restoring part of the ancient pilgrimages of the city, it is also intended to present an architectural project that allows to endow the city with a seventh religious building, also it as a driver of urban growth in the northern part of the bay. The proposed building, taking into account the religious majority of Sao Tome, will be a Catholic church, seeking to be a place of social and spiritual encounter, which meets the expectations of the faithful. The building and its surrounding space will have as challenge, respecting the catholic tradition and African culture, to achieve in a contemporary way to fit within the line of the six religious buildings already mentioned. This should work as an integral part of the path of the marginal and not as an element of exception in order to create dynamic and fluid relations rather than a one-way path.2
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Brindle, Steven. "Some aspects of religious architecture in Castille, 1400-1550 : with special reference to the province of Burgos; a study in patronage." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317655.
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Koetz, Laurent. "Louis-Auguste Boileau (1812-1896) : une figure d'architecte-inventeur au XIXe siècle." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01H078.
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L’étude du parcours de Louis-Auguste Boileau (1812-1896), offre l’opportunité d’éclairer la question du statut de l’invention dans la pratique architecturale au XIXe siècle. Menuisier devenu architecte, Boileau revendique la posture de l’inventeur créant une « nouvelle forme architecturale » en réponse aux attentes de son temps et développant une réflexion historique fondée sur l’élucidation des lois du progrès. La première partie de la recherche est consacrée à l’étude des processus qui permettent à Boileau d’assimiler les matériaux nécessaires à la construction de sa théorie de l’invention au cours de l’histoire. La seconde s’attache à comprendre les mécanismes par lesquels Boileau innove, qu’il s’agisse de méthodes d’évaluation des coûts de la construction, de systèmes architectoniques ou de stratégies de communicationInvestigating the career of Louis-Auguste Boileau (1812-1896) provides a rare opportunity to shed light on the status of invention in nineteenth-century architectural practice. Boileau, a trained joiner who embraced the profession of architect, claimed to be the inventor of a "new architectural form" responding to the expectations of his time that led him to develop a historical reflection based on the interpretation of the laws of progress. The first part of the dissertation examines the various processes that allowed Boileau to comprehend the necessary materials in order to build his theory of invention throughout history. The second part analyses the mechanisms of invention set by Boileau to evaluate construction costs, architectural systems and establish communication strategies
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Matos, Rui 1959. "A arquitectura religiosa de planta centralizada no Renascimento português (1527-1557)." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UL-Universidade de Lisboa -- -Faculdade de Letras, 1996. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29875.
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Sá, Jorge Paulo Duarte Hipólito de. "Media na arquitetura: intervenção e experiência visual em espaço contemplativo Nimbus Radiance Gate Project." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14549.
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O aparecimento das novas tecnologias media abriu novos campos de inter-venção na Arquitetura criando uma nova dinâmica comunicacional na relação entre o espaço e o público onde estão presentes aparatos tecnológicos que permitem uma nova experiência sensorial, estética e até espiritual. Esta conexão torna pertinente a ideia de reabilitar espaços através das novas tecnologias media, como por exemplo espaços religiosos.
Esta investigação pretende criar um projeto Media integrado em espaço reli-gioso, explorando Arquitetura, Arte e Tecnologias media reforçando este campo mul-tidisciplinar. O projecto Media consiste na leitura crítica do lugar através da elabora-ção de um conceito simbólico e iconográfico relacionando o espaço contemplativo e um aparato media/arquitetónico, utilizando softwares de última geração. O projeto media, Nimbus Radiance Gate Project utiliza projeções 3D e sensores de movimento resultando numa dupla projeção holográfica; Abstract:
The appearance of the new Media technologies have opened new fields of in-tervention in architecture creating a new dynamic communication in the relationship between public and space, where are present technological devices that enable a new sensory experience, aesthetic and even espiritual.This connection makes rele-vant the idea of rehabilitate architectonic spaces with new media technologies such as sacred spaces.
This research aims to create a media project integrated in sacred spaces that combine Architecture, Art and New Technologies, exploring new perspectives and diferent dynamics in space.
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Estima, Alberto Jorge dos Santos Nogueira. "Premissas arquitectónicas para o templo católico do terceiro milénio." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- -Universidade Lusíada, 1999. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29141.
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Nunes, Maria Clementina de Araújo. "Conímbriga, arquitectura paleocristã." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UNL-Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- FCSH-Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas -- -Departamento de História da Arte, 1996. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29833.
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Tantcheva-Burdge, Elza. "Colour and light in the seventeenth-century churches of Arbanassi, Bulgaria." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47215/.
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This thesis evaluates the use of colour and light in four seventeenth-century church interiors in Arbanassi, Bulgaria. The aim is to elucidate the appearance of the wall paintings in these churches in the context of the specific use of colour and in the lighting conditions pertaining when they were painted. The investigation both uses existing methods and also creates new scientifically-based ones to address questions concerning the extent to which colour and light were intentionally employed in ways evidenced by common patterns. The underlying hypothesis is that the decoration can be asserted as an embodiment of the ways colour and light were employed in Eastern Church decoration at that period in the Bulgarian province of the Ottoman Empire. In all the churches examined the artists used palettes restricted to a small but constant number of hues. I discuss how they used light and colour contrast to manipulate the appearance of the images. As present the interiors are lit by electric light. The investigation into the interior lighting reveals that the natural lighting is of an even but low intensity, allowing the artificial lighting to dominate. I devised a methodology to assess the effect of the original interior illumination on the appearance of the naves in the con-text of Professor Chalmers and others in the computer reconstruction of historic sites under their original illumination. By departing from conventional art-historical assessments, without merely accumulating technical data, my research challenges previously accepted presumptions and offers a means of revealing the optical complexity of the interiors. While this provides increased knowledge and understanding of the visual practices employed by the artists, the wider significance of this thesis lies in the way it bridges the existing division between science and the humanities and in its development of new methods for art historical research.
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Liebenberg, Deon. "The use of modernism in Afrikaner Protestant Church design in Cape Town's northern suburbs." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2608.
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Thesis (MTech (Architectural Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2014.The growth of Cape Town's northern suburbs during the first few decades of the twentieth century is closely related to the socio-economic history of local Afrikaners who, during this time, left the farms to seek employment in Cape Town's industrial areas. Most of them settled in or near these industrial areas, causing the expansion of the northern suburbs. The first railway line in Cape Town, which was inaugurated in 1862, passed through Bellville on its way from Cape Town station to its terminal point in Eersterivier. The first official station at Bellville was only built in 1882, however, and a stop in Parow only followed in 1903The first Bellville town council was established as recently as 1922 (Bergh, 2009: 5-6). This is an indication of how sparsely populated this area was at the time. The Dutch Reformed Church has traditionally played a central role in the cultural and spiritual life of Afrikaners, and consequently the establishment of Dutch Reformed churches in the northern suburbs stands in clear correlation to the growth of Afrikaner populations in these suburbs (see below). Because of the low population of the Parow and Bellville areas, Dutch Reformed Church members living there were initially part of the Cape Town congregation, and, from 1832 onward, part of the newly established Durbanville congregation. It is only in April 1900 when, in the Bellville area, numbers had increased considerably, that monthly services were held in a school building. By 1920 membership had grown so much that weekly services had to be held. In 1922 a church hall with 300 seats was inaugurated (Bergh, 2009: 7-8). Local services in Parow were only instituted in 1905, with the first church building, a Neo-Gothic structure, following in 1907. In 1917 a separate congregation was established in Parow (i.e. separate from the Durbanville mother congregation), with Bellville following suit in 1934. Goodwood congregation became independent in 1926, having separated from Parow (Van Lill, 1992: 6-9; Bergh, 2009: 8). In subsequent years, as numbers increased, numerous other congregations were established after separating from these three mother congregations, most of which built Modernist churches. The first Dutch Reformed church built in the Goodwood-Parow-Bellville area was the old Parow church. This building no longer exists, but it was built in the Neo-Gothic style which had been current throughout the 19th century, and which was still, at the beginning of the 20th century, the accepted traditional style (see Le Raux, 2008: 21). The Rondebosch Dutch Reformed church, for example, was built in this style during the last decade of the 19th century. (The southern suburbs, which include Rondebosch, had developed gradually over the previous three centuries, and by the early 20th century were well established, leaving relatively few prospects for working class Afrikaners to settle there). At the beginning of the 20th century, with the emergence of a nationalistic consciousness in the wake of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), there was a fervent search for a 'true' Afrikaans church architecture. This search was lead and directed by Gerhard Moerdijk (1890-1958) and Wynand Louw (1883-1967). They emphatically rejected the Gothic style for various reasons. Firstly, because it was designed around the Roman Catholic liturgy and was therefore unsuitable for Protestant worship, and secondly, because it is historically identified with the growth and expansion of the Catholic Church and therefore also with the persecution of Protestants, including that of the Huguenots who fled to the Cape to become ancestors of many Afrikaners (Le Roux, 2008: 22). However, if this style was indeed so offensive to Huguenots because of its Catholic associations, it would possibly not have become so popular during the 19th and zo= centuries. These Neo-Gothic churches are, in fact, unmistakably Protestant in the austerity of their interiors which could not be mistaken for a Catholic Gothic church interior with its abundantly rich ornamentation and sacred imagery. Likewise, the exteriors of these Neo-Gothic churches are distinctly Protestant in their reserved use of ornamentation. Nevertheless, Gothic churches were originally designed around the Catholic liturgy and consequently their layout does not serve the Protestant liturgy well. Here Moerdijk makes a very valid point, and one which would be taken up by subsequent architects as well as writers (see Chapter Seven below). Moerdijk, in his published writings, upholds Classicism and the Renaissance as examples worthy of following (Le Roux, 2008: 22). The resulting new style which he and Louw pursued from the 1920s onwards, and which became enormously popular, is generally referred to as sentraalbou (due to its centralised floor plan) (see Le Roux, 2008: 25-28). Later writers on Afrikaner Protestant church design tend to stress the supposed Byzantine ancestry of this type of church (see below).
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Moura, Carolina Marques Maia e. "Ponto de encontro de culturas e religiões." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19844.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.A Cidade de Maputo, capital de Moçambique, registou diversas fases de expansão, do litoral para o interior, e com ela, cresceram também os bairros periféricos. Abaixo da circunvalação ficou a cidade de cimento projetada e consolidada. Para cima ficaram os bairros periurbanos, que ao contrário da cidade de cimento, registam até hoje um crescimento acelerado e informal. O Bairro da Mafalala situa-se junto à circunvalação, na zona norte da cidade, e neste trabalho, propõe-se a sua requalificação. Para além da restruturação viária, que facilita a circulação no bairro e o acesso aos talhões, realça- -se também a importância do espaço público. Numa cidade marcada pela diversidade de culturas, a Mafalala apresenta-se como uma síntese dessa pluralidade, sendo essencial para os habitantes, o espaço de encontro e convívio. Para além da proposta de requalificação do bairro, apresenta-se o projecto de um espaço público social e inter-religioso com base no estudo das religiões predominantes no bairro: Cristianismo Católico e Evangélico e Islamismo. Este projecto é composto por um espaço público, um centro social e quatro espaços sagrados, cada um correspondente a uma religião. O seu principal objetivo é tornar-se num espaço de encontro inter- -religioso e fazer corresponder o apoio social à fé dos habitantes do bairro.
ABSTRACT: The City of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, has experienced several stages of expansion, from the coast to the interior, and with it, the peripheral neighborhoods have also grown. Down the ring road the city of cement was designed and consolidated. Above that were the periurban neighborhoods which, unlike the city of cement, have recorded an accelerated and informal growth until today. The Mafalala neighborhood is located near the ring road, in the north of the city, and in this work, it is proposed to be re-qualified. In addition to the road restructuring, which facilitates movement in the neighborhood and access to the plots, the importance of the public space is also highlighted. In a city marked by the diversity of cultures, the Mafalala presents itself as a synthesis of this plurality, being essential for the population, the space of meeting and socializing. In addition to the proposed reclassification of the neighborhood, the project of a social and interreligious public space was carried out based on the study of the prevailing religions in the neighborhood: Catholic and Evangelical Christianity and Islam. This project consists of a public space, a social center and four sacred spaces, each corresponding to a religion. Its main objective is to promote the interreligious meeting and to match the social support to the faith of the population of the neighborhood.
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Rosas, Lúcia Maria Cardoso. "Monumentos pátrios-a arquitectura religiosa medieval - património e restauro (1835-1928)." Phd thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Letras, 1995. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29821.
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Sénard, Adriana. "Étienne Martellange (1569-1641) : un architecte "visiteur" de la Compagnie de Jésus à travers la France au temps de Henri IV et de Louis XIII." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOU20119.
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Né à Lyon dans une famille d’artistes peintres et entré dans la Compagnie de Jésus en 1590, Étienne Martellange (1596-1641) eut une carrière exceptionnelle à laquelle rien ne le destinait pourtant. Il devint en effet le principal architecte visiteur de sa congrégation en France, un concepteur et un organisateur remarquable de même qu’un prolixe dessinateur. Durant près de quarante-trois ans, il voyagea sans cesse dans quatre des cinq provinces jésuites du royaume où il travailla à la réflexion, la construction, l’aménagement et le décor de plus de trente maisons et églises de la Compagnie, de même qu’en dehors de celle-ci. À l’aide d’un ensemble de trois-cent-soixante-neuf documents, plans, coupes, élévations, vues de villes et de monuments, lettres et mémoires rassemblés au cours des recherches dans diverses institutions et dépôts d’archives français et étrangers -parmi lesquels quarante-trois inédits-, cette étude envisage de présenter successivement qui était frère Étienne, quelles furent ses activités et quel fut son rôle dans le renouveau de l'architecture de son temps ainsi que dans la naissance de ce qui deviendra à la fin du Grand Siècle le "classicisme à la française"Born in Lyon in a painters family and entered the Society of Jesus in 1590, Étienne Martellange (1596-1641) had an outstanding career in which nothing yet the intended. He became in fact the main architect visitor to his congregation in France, a designer and an outstanding organizer as well as a prolific draftsman. For nearly forty-three years he traveled incessantly in four of five Jesuit provinces of the kingdom where he worked for reflection, construction, layout and decor of more than thirty houses and churches of the Company, and that 'outside thereof. Using a set of three-sixty-nine documents, plans, sections, elevations, views of cities and monuments, letters and memories collected during research in various institutions and deposits of French and foreign archives -among whom forty-three unpublished-, this study intends to present successively who was brother Étienne, what were its activities and what was his role in the revival of the architecture of his time and in the birth of what would become the end of the Grand Siècle "French classicism"
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Pégeot, Séverine. "L’architecture gothique flamboyante dans le comté de Bourgogne : de la fin du XIVe siècle aux grands chantiers du XVIe siècle." Thesis, Besançon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BESA1016/document.
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Cette thèse porte sur l'architecture gothique flamboyante du comté de Bourgogne dela fin du XIVe siècle aux grands chantiers du XVIe siècle : Notre-Dame de Gray etNotre-Dame de Dole. Le corpus compte dix-sept monuments comprenant une majoritéd'églises paroissiales et deux chapelles commanditées par de puissants seigneurs comtois.Cette étude s'inscrit dans un vaste cadre chronologique et permet de poser unjalon dans la compréhension de l'architecture flamboyante en France. La confrontationdes sources écrites à l'analyse monumentale des édifices permet d'appréhender la complexité et la diversité des formes qui s'introduisent dans le comté de Bourgogne à la findu Moyen Âge et dans la première moitié du XVIe siècleThis thesis focuses on the Flamboyant Gothic architecture of County of Burgundyfrom the late XIV century to the large construction sites of the XVI century : Notre-Dame de Gray and Notre-Dame de Dole. The corpus has seventeen monuments mostlycomprised of parish churches, but also of two chapels commissioned by powerful lordsof the County. This study is part of a broad chronological framework and helps lay amilestone in the understanding of the flamboyant architecture in France. The approachis a comparative analysis of sources and monumental buildings, which allows us tounderstand the complexity and the diversity of forms that were introduced into theCounty of Burgundy in the late Middle Ages and in the first half of XVI century