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The sacred way
The real task of architecture begins once functional and behavioral needs have been satisfied. Its essence is to give poetic form to the pragmatic. My work is only interested in the discovery, not the recovery of ideas; the invention, not classification. In working this way the search is for the …
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Threshold to the Sacred
In designing a sacred space, the work should be a product not only of the mechanics of the mind but also a response of the heart, and therefore the spirit or soul that an architect must possess. For the soul is the harmony between the two. This is what gets diffused into the work, the subjectivity …
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Correggio and the Sacred Image
This study takes as its starting point the artist's elusive pictorial surfaces in order to address changing notions of interiority in early sixteenth-century Italy. Correggio's innovative treatment of these surfaces -- what is referred to in the critical tradition in terms of softness, melting, and …
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A dream of the sacred
Memory Childhood Walking the long, winding dirt road to our home. The road is flanked by pine, birch, fern, occasioned by bold jack-in-the-pulpit and fire-red newts. Underfoot, stones roll and skitter. Each stone, solid, whole, each, an open eye, feigning sleep. Holding secret its very center. …
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Towards a political economy of the sacred: a Marxist critique of the sacred dynamics of society
This thesis puts forward the argument that the efficacy of ideas that have an impact on human subjects, causing them to act or behave in particular, noticeable ways, such as religion and ideology, is a product of the process of the necessary social labour involved in the production, circulation, …
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Antarctica: A Geography of the Sacred
… thousands of years, and across all religions, the journey of the pilgrim from the world in which he lives to the sacred centre, or Holy of Holies, has been symbolized and illustrated by concentric designs such as mandalas, labyrinths and temple architecture. Through a coincidence of geology, …
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The Sacred Choral Lieder of Leonhard Lechner
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The sacred choral music of Alberto Ginastera
"The noted Argentine composer, Alberto Ginastera is remembered primarily for operas, Don Rodrigo, Bomarzo, and Beatrix Cenci. Stuart Pope, editor of Ginastera's works and personal friend, has written in the preface of his catalogue: ""As with his (Ginastera's) contemporary Benjamin Britten, the …
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The production of the sacred in postcolonial Africa
This study seeks to discuss the persistence of religion in colonial and postcolonial narratives of confinement and exclusion. I begin by first exploring the history of religion in relation to colonial representations of Africa(ns) as savage and, situating the narratives of confinement and exclusion …
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A wall between the sacred and the profane
The city of Blacksburg, Virginia, has moved its boundaries farther and farther west of U.S.460. Though a large amount of commercial and residential architecture has accompanied this growth, there has been no sacred architecture to complement any of this secular construction. With this in mind, a …
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Everyday Encounters With the Sacred: Artist, Action, and Image
The narratives that are shaped from in-depth dialogs with the artists suggest there is meaning in the sacred encounters because they are not set apart from daily activities, but are embedded in everyday experiences. Through relationships, both with others in the community of like believers and with …
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In the service of the sacred : development for conservation
… precincts, throughout India, provide some of the most unforgettable images of the Indian vernacular. Many are now 'protected' by the Heritage Commissions, strictly regulating new development and making renovation/conservation a part of the government's planning/urban design agenda. But due to …
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The Iconography of the Sacred Mother of Santa Maria Tonantzintla
This thesis entails a three-part approach to understanding the iconographic program at Santa Maria Tonantzintla. First, an historical and stylistic background of Santa Maria Tonantzintla will be presented. Included in this section is a description of the church and its many saints. The second part …
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Plant-flower visitor interactions in the Sacred Valley of Peru
The structural organisation of species-rich plant-pollinator networks is important to understanding their ecology and evolution and is essential for making informed conservation and restoration decisions. This thesis reports on a study located at different altitudes in nine tributary valleys of the …
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EXPERIENCING THE SACRED: A phenomenological exploration of architecture as sentient space
Experiencing the Sacred considers how a sense of sacredness in architecture comes from lived, embodied experience, rather than the presence of religious symbols or functions. Utilizing phenomenological thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Pallasmaa, and Norberg-Schulz, this thesis …
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Oneida College Lacrosse Players’ Perspectives of the Sacred Game of Lacrosse
… players have an important perspective on the sacred game of lacrosse that needs to be heard. The Oneida are one of six tribes of the Haudenosaunee, or also known as, the Iroquois. Lacrosse is one of the fastest growing sports in the world and the style played today is most similar to the …
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Nature, History, and the Sacred in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
This dissertation focuses on the transformation of Islamic theology through the experience of everyday life and politics in contemporary Delhi, as well as the changing role of nature and ecology in the experience of the sacred, across religious communities, in the post-colonial city. In the ruins …
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Towards a Politics of the Sacred: Georges Bataille in Interwar France
… this work has attempted to demonstrate the sincerity (while also emphasizing the impracticality) of Bataille's political agenda. It is the contention of this work that Bataille's politics appear incomprehensible or parenthetical to his philosophy only when his critique of the autonomous …
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The sacred skyline : the conflict over height restrictions for Copley Square
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.
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