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The secret language of churches & cathedrals : decoding the sacred symbolism of Christianity's holy buildings / by Stemp, Richard.(CARDINAL)283684;
Includes bibliographical references (page 217) and index.
Subjects: Symbolism in architecture.; Church architecture.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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A pattern language : towns, buildings, construction / by Alexander, Christopher.(CARDINAL)425512; Ishikawa, Sara,author.(CARDINAL)681769; Silverstein, Murray,author.(CARDINAL)681768;
Subjects: Semiotics.; Symbolism in architecture.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 8
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Sacred architecture / by Humphrey, Caroline.(CARDINAL)726309; Vitebsky, Piers.(CARDINAL)369412;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-174) and index.
Subjects: Architecture and religion.; Symbolism in architecture.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The old way of seeing / by Hale, Jonathan.(CARDINAL)380030;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
Subjects: Architecture; Symbolism in architecture.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Islamic art and architecture / by Hillenbrand, Robert.(CARDINAL)338160;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.
Subjects: Islamic architecture.; Islamic art.; Symbolism in architecture;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shelter, sign & symbol / by Oliver, Paul,1927-2017.(CARDINAL)344706;
Includes bibliographies.
Subjects: Architecture, Prehistoric.; Architecture.; Dwellings.; Signs and symbols.; Symbolism in architecture.; Vernacular architecture.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Parthenon enigma / by Connelly, Joan Breton,1954-author.(CARDINAL)764807;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-456) and index.The Sacred Rock : myth and the power of place -- Before the Parthenon : gods, monsters, and the cosmos -- Periklean Pomp : The Parthenon moment and its passing -- The Ultimate Sacrifice : Founding father, mother, daughters -- The Parthenon Frieze : The key to the temple -- Why the Parthenon : War, death, and remembrance in the shaping of sacred space -- The Panathenaia : The performance of belonging and the death of the maiden -- The Well-scrubbed Legacy : The sincerest of flattery and the limits of acquired identity."A revolutionary new understanding of the most famous and influential building in the world, a thesis that calls into question our basic understanding of the ancient civilization that we most identify with. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture, the epitome of the ancient society from which we derive our highest ideals. It was understood to honor the city-state's patron deity Athena, and its intricately sculpted surface believed to depict a celebration of civic continuity in the birthplace of democracy. But through a close reading of a lost play by Euripides, accidentally discovered on a papyrus wrapping an Egyptian mummy, Joan Connelly began to develop a new theory that has sparked one of the fiercest controversies ever to rock the world of classics. Now, she recounts how our most basic sense of the Parthenon and of the culture that built it may have been crucially mistaken. Re-creating the ancient structure from its natural environment to its pediment, and using a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, she uncovers a monument glorifying human sacrifice set in a world of cult rituals quite unlike anything conventionally conjured by the word "Athenian."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Parthenon (Athens, Greece); Symbolism in architecture;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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The old way of seeing : how architecture lost its magic and how to get it back / by Hale, Jonathan.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.Hale provides a tour of our buildings and our social history, examines the principles that animate beautiful buildings, and offers hope for recapturing the lost magic of architecture.
Subjects: Architecture and society; Architecture; Architecture; Architecture; Symbolism in architecture.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The secrets of Masonic Washington : a guidebook to signs, symbols, and ceremonies at the origin of America's capital / by Wasserman, James,1948-(CARDINAL)278727;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-182) and index.Introduction : hidden in plain sight -- Freemasonry and the cause of human liberty -- The Masonic design of Washington D.C. -- A walking tour of the capital -- Epilogue : a vision of the future of America.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Freemasonry; Freemasonry; Freemasonry; Symbolism in architecture;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Temple of liberty : building the Capitol for a new nation : Madison Gallery, February 24 through June 24, 1995, a Library of Congress exhibition. by Library of Congress.(CARDINAL)137409;
Includes bibliographical references (page 35).
Subjects: United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); Neoclassicism (Architecture); Symbolism in architecture;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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