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<p>An inspirational call for a return to the tenets of traditional architecture as a remedy for the dehumanizing standards of modern architecture</p> <p>• Explains how modern architecture is emblematic of our current estrangement from the spiritual principles that shaped humanity’s greatest civilizations</p> <p>• Reveals how the ancient laws of sacred proportion and harmony can be restored</p> <p>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 reveals how today’s dysfunctional buildings bring out the worst in humanity, reinforcing that which is most base within us. He shows how, through the ancient laws of proportion and number, architecture once expressed the harmonious relationship between man and the cosmos. In early times, the architect worked within a sacred and esoteric tradition of creating structures through which human beings could gain insight into the nature of the divine reality. Today, that tradition h

Author

Herbert Bangs M.Arch.

Publisher

Inner Traditions International, Limited

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594771323

Subjects

Religion, Art, Body Mind & Spirit