A typology of sacred place :
A typology of sacred place Ecclesiastical (houses of god)
Gateways, altars, paths
Domestic
Homes, gardens, lawns
Civic
Monuments
Memorials
Entire cities (Jerusalem, Rome; Temple city complex)
Natural
Ritual/Architectural Priorities (Lindsay Jones) :
Ritual/Architectural Priorities (Lindsay Jones) I. Orientation
- homology
- conventions
- astronomy
II. Commemoration
- divinity
- sacred history
- politics
- the dead
III. Ritual Context
- theatre
- contemplative
- spectacle
- propitiation
- sancturary Egyptian Pyramids
Slide 4:
II. Commemoration
- divinity
- sacred history
- politics
- the dead Civil Religion Horatio Greenhough, 1841 - mixed reviews; in Smithsonian since 1908.
Slide 5:
A tradition monument, as the origin of the word indicates, is an object which is supposed to remind us of something important. That is to say, it exists to put people in mind of some obligation they have incurred: a great public figure, a great public event, a great public declaration which the group has pledged itself to honor.
- J.B. Jackson Monumentality… always embodies and imposes a clearly intelligible message. It say what it wishes to say—yet it hides a good deal more.
- Henri Lefebvre [h]istorical monuments and civic spaces as didactic artifacts were treated with curatorial reverence. They were visualized best if seen as isolated ornaments; jewels of the city to be place in scenographic arrangements and icongraphically composed to civilize and elevate the aesthetic tastes and morals of an aspiring urban elite. This was an architecture or ceremonial power whose monuments spoke of exemplary deeds, national unity, and industrial glory. – Christine Boyer, City of Collective Memory