Books written by Thomas Barrie

  • House and Home: Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles

    ... John xxii Pearson, Casper 178n6 phenomenological hermeneutics xxiv philosophers: retreats 93–7 place: experience of xx Place and Occasion (van Eyck) 147 Plains Indians 67 Plato 3, 74–5 Pliny the Younger 129 Po-Chü-i 28–9, ...

  • Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality

    Buddhists call it the Spark of Awakening, or “Buddha-nature” (Skt: Tathagathagarbha). Indistinguishable from the Buddha's mind, the Spark of Awakening is an individual's source of wisdom and virtuous activities, the source of happiness, ...

  • Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality

    Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Art critic Peter Schjeldahl is eloquent on this score. See his essay (1998). “Notes on Beauty” in Bill Beckly (ed.), Uncontrollable Beauty. New York, NY: Allworth Press, pp. 53–5.

  • House and Home: Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles

    66–7. de Bastide, The Little House, from the Introduction by Rodolphe elKhoury, p. 33. V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas (New York: Alfred A. Knoft, Inc., 1961), p. 201. Richard Gill, Happy Rural Seat: The English Country House and ...

  • The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture

    Gerhard Adler, Selected Letters of C.G. Jung, 1909–1961, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984, p. 196. Jaffé, Memories, op. cit., p. 226. Ibid., p. 31. A quote from the fourteenth-century alchemist Arnaldus de Villanova.

  • Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality

    Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality

  • The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture

    Establishing the contexts, approaches and understandings of architecture through the lens of the mediating roles often performed by sacred architecture, this book offers the reader an extraordinary insight into the forces behind these ...