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The Role Of The Transcendent In Landscapes, Kathryn E. Sonntag
The Role Of The Transcendent In Landscapes, Kathryn E. Sonntag
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
For as long as humans have designed spaces, they have done so not just to meet basic physical needs but in quest of higher aspirations, including those spiritual and intellectual. These were spaces of contemplation, conducive to the transcendent experience, found in abundance in premodern times, and generally communal in nature. They are less prevalent now, yet there is ample evidence that the need for spaces of contemplation as well as transcendent experiences is as real as ever, despite the current lack of spaces providing such a transcendent connection. Past communal landscape design that provides for the possibility of the …