@book{barrie_bermudez_tabb_2015, title={Architecture, culture, and spirituality}, ISBN={9781472441713}, DOI={10.4324/9781315567778}, abstractNote={Contents: Foreword, Alberto Perez-Gomez Introduction, Thomas Barrie, Julio Bermudez and Phillip James Tabb. Part I Being in the World: On architecture, divinity, and the interhuman, Michael Benedikt Encountering significance: architecture, place, and Heidegger's gods, Randall Teal Phenomenology of the architectural extraordinary and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, Julio Bermudez. Part II Sacred, Secular, and the Contemporary Condition: The sacred becomes profane, Michael J. Crosbie An aesthetic and ethical account of genius loci, Hyejung Chang Neophilia, spirituality, and architecture, Paul Tesar. Part III Symbolic Engagements: A home in the world: the ontological significance of home, Thomas Barrie Symbolism and myth of mountains, stone, and light as expressed in sacred architecture, Anat Geva Narrating Chichen Itza: storytelling, disagreement, and second naivete at the 'city of the sacred well', Lindsay Jones. Part IV Sacred Landscapes: Space, object, and encounter, Rebecca Krinke Regarding sacred landscapes and the everyday corollary, Dennis Alan Winters Sacred landscapes: the threshold between worlds, A.T. Mann. Part V Spirituality and the Designed Environment: Secular sacredness in place creation: a case study and analysis of Serenbe community, Phillip James Tabb Experiencing the architecture of the incomplete, imperfect, and impermanent, Rumiko Handa Wonder, wisdom, and mastery in architecture, Prem Chandavarkar From within: on the spiritual in art and architecture, Nader Ardalan. Index.}, publisher={Burlington, VT: Ashgate}, author={Barrie, T. and Bermudez, J. and Tabb, P. J.}, year={2015} }
 @article{barrie_2012, title={Sacred Space and the Mediating Roles of Architecture}, volume={20}, ISSN={1062-7987 1474-0575}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1062798711000330}, DOI={10.1017/S1062798711000330}, abstractNote={The creation, roles, and experience of meaningful places in contemporary urban environments can be effectively informed through understandings of pertinent aspects of sacred architecture. To do so, this paper will discuss the mediating roles traditionally performed by sacred architecture and, in particular, its traditional role as an in-between place believed by its creators to establish connections to the understandings they sought or the gods they worshipped. Enduring themes of sacred places will be presented in the context of their communicative capacity and ritual uses, as a means to offer interpretations appropriate to today. The case study of the recently completed Oakland (CA) Cathedral will serve to illustrate contemporary positions and iterations. The conclusion suggests that the sacred place was (and still is), an intermediate zone created in the belief that it had the ability to engage, elucidate and transform, and that a re-introduction and repositioning of the mediating roles performed by the built environment can inform the creation of engaging and meaningful places today.}, number={1}, journal={European Review}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Barrie, Thomas}, year={2012}, month={Jan}, pages={79–94} }
 @article{barrie_bermudez_2008, title={Immateriality in Architecture Introduction}, volume={62}, ISSN={["1046-4883"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1531-314x.2008.00233.x}, abstractNote={Pablo Neruda reminds us that the ephemeral space between words is where authentic communication and understanding occur. Analogously, considerations of the immaterial in architecture suggest that it is in between our conventional conceptualizations and experiences that significance and meaning may be discovered. Bernard Tschumi inverts our presumptions regarding the presence of architecture when he asks, ‘‘is space a material thing in which all material things are located?’’ that leads to the question, is the immaterial as ‘‘real’’ as the material (if not more so)? We have difficulty understanding the ‘‘immaterial,’’ a product perhaps of our overly ‘‘materialistic’’ culture, yet much of what we value—love, joy, comfort, beauty, meaning, and happiness—is immaterial. Most religions emphasize the immaterial: from the Buddhist concept of the reciprocity of form and emptiness to the Holy Spirit of Trinitarian Christianity. Architectural theory has a substantial tradition regarding the immaterial, from Vitruvius’ ‘‘delight’’ to Louis Kahn’s ‘‘immeasurable’’ and from Christopher Alexander’s ‘‘quality-withouta-name’’ to Juhani Pallasmaa’s emphasis on the metaphysical and existential aspects of architecture. Steven Holl argues that ‘‘beyond the physicality of architectural objects and practicalities of programmatic content, enmeshed experience is not merely a place of events, things, and activities, but something more intangible, which emerges from the continuous unfolding of overlapping spaces, materials, and detail.’’ Architectural immateriality describes the subjective experience of place; the embodiment of culture, symbolism, and ritual; and the uncountable ways that architecture articulates existential meanings. Lindsay Jones reminds us that ‘‘buildings in and of themselves do not ‘mean’ anything’’ but only have significance ‘‘in the negotiation or the interactive relation that subsumes both the building and the beholder—in the ritualarchitectural event in which buildings and human participants are involved.’’ Essentially, immateriality is revealed in embodied consciousness, but this does not mean that it is only subjective. Any bifurcation of subject and object, self and other, or body and environment truncates the ability to fully experience (and subsequently understand) the wholeness that is intrinsic to any qualitative activity. Considerations of immateriality in architecture challenge a discipline where new construction and material technologies, in addition to digitally generated designs, representations, and fabrication, have gained privileged positions in theory, pedagogy, and practice.The resulting imbalance calls for reconsiderations of the ineffable, numinous, and immeasurable in architecture. Technological and formal responses to the environmental, social, cultural, and professional challenges we face need to include more diverse, inclusive, and balanced approaches. The following scholarly papers and designs supply heterogeneous approaches and perspectives concerning immateriality in architecture. We hope they may serve to advance our complex and nuanced discipline and bring us closer to that ‘‘exotic moment’’ Neruda describes within which ‘‘we would all be together in a sudden strangeness.’’ ‘‘Modeling the Void: Mathias Goeritz and the Architecture of Emotions’’ focuses on Mathias Goeritz’s design methods, ideology, and work to challenge contemporary modes of production in architecture. Louise Pelletier’s discussion of the primacy of emotional responses and the necessity of nonobjective conceptualizations of architecture provides new perspectives regarding the role of the immaterial in today’s technologically biased, mediated, and materialistic world. In ‘‘Immaterial Structures: Encountering the Extraordinary in the Everyday,’’ Randall Teal applies Martin Heidegger’s philosophy to explore the ineffable in architecture in the context of ordinary life. Authenticity, disclosure, anxiety, and involvement, vis-à-vis the nature of both ‘‘being-in-the-world’’ and ‘‘thing-in-the-world,’’ are considered in relation to the making of architecture. This challenging paper provides new understandings of the immaterial that are relevant to the teaching and practice of architecture. 1. Interior view of the Centro Kursaal in San Sebastián, Spain, by Rafael Moneo. (Photo by Joshua Hansen, courtesy of the photographer.)}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION}, author={Barrie, Thomas and Bermudez, Julio}, year={2008}, month={Nov}, pages={4–5} }
 @article{barrie_2007, title={Built upon love: Architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics}, volume={60}, ISSN={["1046-4883"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1531-314x.2007.00097.x}, abstractNote={(2007). Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics - Edited by Alberto Perez-Gomez. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 51-52.}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION}, author={Barrie, Thomas}, year={2007}, month={Feb}, pages={51–52} }