Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality: Contemporary Perspectives on the Nature of the Sacred in the Built Environment
Edited by Thomas Barrie, Julio Bermudez, Philip Tabb
Ashgate Publishing, 2015
Contemplative landscape and contemplative space are familiar terms in the areas of design, landscape architecture and architecture. Krinke and her highly regarded contributors set out to explore definitions, theories, and case studies of contemplative landscapes. The contributors, Marc Treib, John Beardsley, Michael Singer, Lance Neckar, Heinrich Hermann and Rebecca Krinke have spent their careers researching, critiquing, and making landscapes. Here they investigate the role of contemplative space in a post-modern world and examine the impact of nature and culture on the design or interpretation of contemplative landscapes.
The essays, drawn from both scholarship and personal experience explore the links between spaces designed to provide health benefits and contemplative space. This book is the result of scholarly findings and papers selected from the first four symposia conducted by the Forum for Architecture, Culture and Spirituality (ACS). Each year typically twenty-five extended abstract have been written and presented at the symposia, from which the very best have been chosen for this work.
Contributions:
Chapter 11: “Space, Object, and Encounter” by Rebecca Krinke
