Humphrey, Caroline.

Sacred architecture / by Caroline Humphrey, Piers Vitebsky. - Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, 1997. - 184 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. - Living Wisdom. .

Title on cover : Models of the cosmos--Symbolic form and ornament--Traditions of East and West.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Architecture and the cosmos--Sacred and social dimensions--Ritual and ceremony--Types and traditions--Boudaries, thresholds and the centre--The architecture of the afterlife--Documentary reference.

0316381225


Architecture and religion.
Symbolism in architecture.