Architecture, Culture, Spirituality 7:Nature and the Ordinary مقاله

Architecture, Culture, Spirituality 7: Nature and the Ordinary Architecture, Culture, Spirituality (ACS) members Julio Bermudez (Catholic University of America, Washington DC), Norman Crowe (Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame School of Architecture), and Paul Tesar (North Carolina State Uni versity) co-chaired and organized the 2015 ACS symposium, which explored nature and the otherwise ordinary that form the spiritual foundations of archi tecture and culture. As this symposium focused on understanding the relationships of the sacred to space and design, the religious beliefs of various faiths, including Islam, were covered. In addition, it prepared the group for considering the important local sites to be visited the following day and establishing the groundwork for a continuous conversation of what the sacred, in all its layers of ephemeral and concrete, can mean. Field trips to experience local spaces of sacred interest are a tradition of ACS symposia. That evening the second keynote speaker, Rina Swentzell (renowned artist, author, and scholar on Puebloan culture, values, and philosophy) presented “Being in Place: Architecture and Spirituality in the Pueblo World. Visiting these important local sites as a collective and within the frame work of the symposium theme served to underscore the event’s tone with re flections on the relationship of sacred to nature and the everyday and grounded what could have become very academic notions with palpable and shared tac tile experiences. ” In the sixth session, The Aural in Sacred Space, Mark Baechler and Tammy Gaber (Laurentian University, Canada) presented “The Voice of Abraham’s House,” a study of sound from a mosque, church, and synagogue.