thomas Barrie
Thomas Barrie, AIA is a Professor of Architecture at North Carolina State University where he served as School Director from 2002 – 2007. Professor Barrie’s scholarship on the symbolism, ritual use and cultural significance of architecture has brought him to sacred places around the world, and he has published and lectured extensively in his subject area. He is an award-winning architect and the author of House and Home: Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles (Routledge, 2017), The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture (Routledge, 2010) and Spiritual Path, Sacred Place: Myth Ritual and Meaning in Architecture (Shambhala, 1996). He is a founding member of the Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum.
http://www.acsforum.org/
Professor Barrie is committed to broadening the scope and audience of architecture through scholarship, publication, extension and community-based design studios. His work focuses on educating future leaders of the profession while engaging the public in critical issues regarding the built environment. At NC State he leads the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities initiative, which provides educational resources for government, non-profit and community leaders, students, and the general public, and innovative and applicable solutions to the housing and urban challenges that North Carolina communities face.
http://design.ncsu.edu/ah+sc/
He is also the principal of Thomas Barrie Architects, a small, selective practice located in Raleigh NC that specializes in the design of modern homes, affordable housing and small-scale commercial and civic projects. The firm offers personalized professional services for clients who aspire to create architecture that reflects their values and sensitively responds to its environmental and cultural contexts.
http://www.thomasbarriearchitect.com/
Address: Thomas Barrie, AIA
Professor of Architecture
College of Design/Brooks 305A
NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7701 USA
http://www.acsforum.org/
Professor Barrie is committed to broadening the scope and audience of architecture through scholarship, publication, extension and community-based design studios. His work focuses on educating future leaders of the profession while engaging the public in critical issues regarding the built environment. At NC State he leads the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities initiative, which provides educational resources for government, non-profit and community leaders, students, and the general public, and innovative and applicable solutions to the housing and urban challenges that North Carolina communities face.
http://design.ncsu.edu/ah+sc/
He is also the principal of Thomas Barrie Architects, a small, selective practice located in Raleigh NC that specializes in the design of modern homes, affordable housing and small-scale commercial and civic projects. The firm offers personalized professional services for clients who aspire to create architecture that reflects their values and sensitively responds to its environmental and cultural contexts.
http://www.thomasbarriearchitect.com/
Address: Thomas Barrie, AIA
Professor of Architecture
College of Design/Brooks 305A
NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7701 USA
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With this book Thomas Barrie offers us neither a guide to how to build, nor a history of domestic architecture, nor a survey of significant houses, although a concern with all three informs his discussion of house and home. At issue is something more fundamental: the need for both physical and spiritual shelter that is inseparable from human being; the way houses and thoughts about houses, especially in literature, have articulated changing convictions concerning how human beings should take their place in the world, how they should relate to an encompassing reality, to others, and to themselves. Aware of the countless directions such articulations have taken, of the historical roots of our idealization of the suburban home, Barrie does not attempt to formulate some other ideal that would provide our building with a direction; instead his study of house and home calls attention to timeless themes that responsible building must consider, such as the tension between the need to be placed and the demands of freedom, between the need for privacy and the need for community, the place of the dead in our lives, the bond that ties the domestic to the sacred. Thus he has given us a prolegomenon to responsible building. Karsten Harries, Howard H Newman Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
In this learned study, Thomas Barrie takes us beyond contemporary civilization's limited and individualistic assumptions of home and house as mere bastions of privacy, to reveal how the concepts respond to our human need for meaning – for dwelling in place and with others. His meditations through diverse historical and topical examples are invaluable for anyone concerned with building and inhabiting a world resonant with humanity's existential questions. Alberto Pérez-Gómez, author and professor, McGill University
Available for discounted pre-sales www.routledge.com/9781138947160
Conference Proceedings (Editing) by thomas Barrie
Journal Editing by thomas Barrie
Architectural immateriality may be engaged from distinct discursive directions. Historical and theoretical studies have long considered the ineffable nature of architecture. Design-based inquiries, pedagogic strategies, and representational methods have their own histories of examining the relation of the material and ethereal nature of constructing place. Phenomenological, semiotic, hermeneutical, post-structural, and post-critical methodologies have offered experimental, comparative, and analytical tools to interpret the sensual, existential, symbolic, and spiritual dimensions of this complex condition. This issue of the JAE offers an opportunity for contributors to reflect on these varied practices and to project new trajectories.
What constitutes a qualitative experience of place? Can today’s representational media emulate the ineffable? How can we distinguish between the numinous and the merely luminous? Will new developments in the sciences, psychology, and philosophy bring new insights to the question of the immaterial in our increasingly material culture? This special issue of JAE seeks critical responses to the difficult task of working materially with artifacts and places that are also tangibly immaterial.
Book Chapters by thomas Barrie
A number of impulses define contemporary spirituaLiry, including aesthetic, ethical, and ontological emphases.The first conceives of spirituality and spiritual experiences as growing out of the beauty and presence of creation. The second offers sustainable and restorative perspectives and aims to address the grand problems of the age - global climate change, economic and political disparities, warfare and displacement, and other contemporary imperatives that demand holistic solutions. The third seeks psychic reorientations where the world and one's place in it arc revealed, and reverence is paired with inquiry to seek inner development and outer realization regarding the nature of being, purpose, and place in tbe cosmos.
-- what is missing in the contemporary discourse regarding the built environment?
-- are there perspectives from the past that are still relevant?
-- what are new ways to approach and understand what occurs at the intersection between architecture, culture and spirituality? and,
-- in what ways can the practice, design and stewardship of buildings assist in meeting today's challenges?
Entrevistas & Notas / Interviews & Notes by thomas Barrie
In the podcast, CTI Joshua Mauldin interviews Murray Rae (University of Otago, New Zealand), Thomas Barrie (North Carolina State University), and Julio Bermudez (Catholic University of America) about the vision, nature, and potential of such an inquiry :
https://soundcloud.com/8ltxez6g7yqq/religion-the-built-environment
With this book Thomas Barrie offers us neither a guide to how to build, nor a history of domestic architecture, nor a survey of significant houses, although a concern with all three informs his discussion of house and home. At issue is something more fundamental: the need for both physical and spiritual shelter that is inseparable from human being; the way houses and thoughts about houses, especially in literature, have articulated changing convictions concerning how human beings should take their place in the world, how they should relate to an encompassing reality, to others, and to themselves. Aware of the countless directions such articulations have taken, of the historical roots of our idealization of the suburban home, Barrie does not attempt to formulate some other ideal that would provide our building with a direction; instead his study of house and home calls attention to timeless themes that responsible building must consider, such as the tension between the need to be placed and the demands of freedom, between the need for privacy and the need for community, the place of the dead in our lives, the bond that ties the domestic to the sacred. Thus he has given us a prolegomenon to responsible building. Karsten Harries, Howard H Newman Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
In this learned study, Thomas Barrie takes us beyond contemporary civilization's limited and individualistic assumptions of home and house as mere bastions of privacy, to reveal how the concepts respond to our human need for meaning – for dwelling in place and with others. His meditations through diverse historical and topical examples are invaluable for anyone concerned with building and inhabiting a world resonant with humanity's existential questions. Alberto Pérez-Gómez, author and professor, McGill University
Available for discounted pre-sales www.routledge.com/9781138947160
Architectural immateriality may be engaged from distinct discursive directions. Historical and theoretical studies have long considered the ineffable nature of architecture. Design-based inquiries, pedagogic strategies, and representational methods have their own histories of examining the relation of the material and ethereal nature of constructing place. Phenomenological, semiotic, hermeneutical, post-structural, and post-critical methodologies have offered experimental, comparative, and analytical tools to interpret the sensual, existential, symbolic, and spiritual dimensions of this complex condition. This issue of the JAE offers an opportunity for contributors to reflect on these varied practices and to project new trajectories.
What constitutes a qualitative experience of place? Can today’s representational media emulate the ineffable? How can we distinguish between the numinous and the merely luminous? Will new developments in the sciences, psychology, and philosophy bring new insights to the question of the immaterial in our increasingly material culture? This special issue of JAE seeks critical responses to the difficult task of working materially with artifacts and places that are also tangibly immaterial.
A number of impulses define contemporary spirituaLiry, including aesthetic, ethical, and ontological emphases.The first conceives of spirituality and spiritual experiences as growing out of the beauty and presence of creation. The second offers sustainable and restorative perspectives and aims to address the grand problems of the age - global climate change, economic and political disparities, warfare and displacement, and other contemporary imperatives that demand holistic solutions. The third seeks psychic reorientations where the world and one's place in it arc revealed, and reverence is paired with inquiry to seek inner development and outer realization regarding the nature of being, purpose, and place in tbe cosmos.
-- what is missing in the contemporary discourse regarding the built environment?
-- are there perspectives from the past that are still relevant?
-- what are new ways to approach and understand what occurs at the intersection between architecture, culture and spirituality? and,
-- in what ways can the practice, design and stewardship of buildings assist in meeting today's challenges?
In the podcast, CTI Joshua Mauldin interviews Murray Rae (University of Otago, New Zealand), Thomas Barrie (North Carolina State University), and Julio Bermudez (Catholic University of America) about the vision, nature, and potential of such an inquiry :
https://soundcloud.com/8ltxez6g7yqq/religion-the-built-environment