RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE: VISUAL AND SEMIOTIC ASPECTS
The author investigates a semiotic function of religious architecture. Sacred building (a temple) is a specific visual semiotic unit, fixing main religious and cultural content. The concept of “sacred place”, shifting from temple to the city, translates local historical meanings and related visual markers on a habitable environment in general. Methods of architectural design of sacral topos in the national culture are investigated on the example of the most important sacred buildings. Three semiotic paradigms of sacred meanings transfer in architecture are identified: the transfer of ideas, the image transfer and the copying.
Keywords: architecture, religion, culture, semiotic transfer
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Issue: 7, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION
Pages: 59 — 64
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