Sacred Architecture
- ISBN-10
- 0316381225
- ISBN-13
- 9780316381222
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Authors
- Caroline Humphrey, Piers Vitebsky
Description
Looks at the different ways the worlds religions translate their beliefs into architecture, and discusses site selection, feng shui, celestial alignments, and consecration.
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