This research investigates the phenomenon of pilgrimage, seeking to better understand the dimensions of space and power of place as it pertains to the individual pilgrim's relationship to a foreign environment while emphasizing the humanistic, experiential and physical aspects embedded within the process of pilgrimage. An examination of the concept of pilgrimage through the experience of an architect, pilgrimage as a vehicle for finding self, exploration of the phenomenology of place, and investigation of the fundamentals or anthropology of experience, will also be included.For an architect this unique and relatively untouched area of research has great importance. Architects are constantly searching for an understanding of the relationship between environments and people. The profession, as a whole, is trained to be especially sensitive to aesthetic and cultural aspects of the built environment. Furthermore, the study of pilgrimage, to date, lacks scholarly research conducted by architects, whose unique perception of three-dimensional space and knowledge of the language necessary to build unique places could potentially add insight into many aspects of the pilgrimage phenomenon. These aspects emphasize the role environment plays in pilgrimage and the spatial behavior of pilgrim's relationship to environment. / Department of Architecture
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/187122 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Wendell, Todd |
| Contributors | Sinclair, Brian R. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 54 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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