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Réf.

41460

Type

conference item

Titre

Considering the spirit of place in Ayn Al-Qozat Hamedani lecture on place and time

Langues

English

Auteurs

Davoodi, Alborz / Davoodi, Alvand

Date

2008

Pages

10 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

sacred places / spirit of place / architecture / places of religion and ritual / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Iran

Personnalités

Ayn al-Qozat Hamedani (poet and philosopher, 1098–1131)

Résumé en anglais

Through holy places, human can approach to the intelligence higher than those gained from ordinary places, and by the material aspect, he find his existence as a kind of non-existence, but it can be imagined existence by the viewpoint of connection to God. Place of everything in Ayn al-Qozat sight is existence level of that element, like the place of water or fire, which specifies presence arena of that thing in the cosmos. So existence of mankind requires a place suitable for human dignity which should be a particular position of "existence" that architecture space stands on it.
The aim of research is to study the bases of holy places in Ayn al-Qozat Hamedani lecture on "Place and Time", for applying it in architecture of holy places and to explain the opinions of him, the great philosopher and poet who was living 9 hundred years ago in 12th century A.D in Iran.

Ressource intégrale

yes

Document joint

77-oW1m-152.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)