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Return of Sacred Architecture The Golden Ratio and the End of Modernism

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ISBN-10: 1594771324

ISBN-13: 9781594771323

Edition: 2007

Authors: Herbert Bangs

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An inspirational call for a return to the tenets of traditional architecture as a remedy for the dehumanizing standards of modern architecture - Explains how modern architecture is emblematic of our current estrangement from the spiritual principles that shaped humanity's greatest civilizations - Reveals how the ancient laws of sacred proportion and harmony can be restored The ugly buildings that characterize the modern landscape are inferior not only to the great cathedrals of medieval Europe and the temples of ancient Egypt and Greece, but even to lesser buildings of the more recent past. The great masterworks of our ancestors spoke to humanity's higher nature. Architect Herbert Bangs…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Inner Traditions International, Limited
Publication date: 11/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

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

Introduction : a radical revelation
The scientific architecture of the twentieth century
Making the modern architect
The materialist paradigm
The return of the spirit
Intuition and the creative mind
Archetypes of shelter
Archetypes of design
The resolution of form
Geometry and number
Architect and cosmos
A time of transition