On the transcendent in landscapes of contemplation

Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 36-72

  Hermann, Heinrich ^a  

^a Hermann Design Studio   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203462089     Document Type: Chapter

References (15)

1. Emerson, R. W., "Nature," in Spiller, R. E. and Ferguson, A. R. (eds), Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, [using text of 1836 edition of Nature, Boston: James Munroe & Co], (1979), Cambridge, MA, and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, p. 7.
2. On meditation see e.g. Goleman, Daniel, The Meditative Mind: The Varieties of Meditative Experience (Los Angeles, CA: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1988), or the issue on "Meditation," Journal of Dharma, II, 2, April 1977.
3. e.g. in Wallace, Robert Keith, and Herbert Benson, "The Physiology of Meditation," in Scientific American (February 1972), pp. 84-90.
4. Scheffler, Israel, In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (New York and London: Routledge, 1991).
5. See e.g. Goleman, D. op. cit., or the issue on "Meditation," Journal of Dharma, op. cit.
6. This presupposes the ability of entering into a contemplative state (see endnote 3), triggered by aspects of the work. Each individual cannot respond equally or with equal intensity, however, due to differing degrees of receptivity-as pointed out by Nelson Goodman with respect to art: "The work of art is apprehended through the feelings as well as through the senses. Emotional numbness disables here as definitely if not as completely as blindness or deafness" [my italics].
7. See Goodman, N., Languages of Art (1976), Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, p. 248.
8. For a short history of the commission's evolution and how the Mexican architect Luis Barragan inspired Kahn to make the courtyard a plaza with "not one leaf, nor plant, nor one flower" in it, see Friedman, D. S., "Salk Institute for Biological Studies," in Brownlee, D. B. and De Long, D. G., Louis I Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture (1991), New York: Rizzoli, pp. 434-9.
9. Bachelard, G., The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos (1971), Boston MA: Beacon Press, p. 173.
10. Latour, A. (ed.), Louis I. Kahn: Writings, Lectures, Interviews (1991), New York: Rizzoli International, p. 208.
11. Scheffler, I. op. cit., p. 62.
12. From "Silence and Light," reprinted in Latour, op. cit., p. 246.
13. In Spiller, and Ferguson, op. cit., p. 10.
14. For the cemetery's history and its design evolution see especially Constant, C. (1994) The Woodland Cemetery: Toward a Spiritual Landscape, Stockholm: Byggforlaget, and
15. sections in Ahlin, J. (1987) Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect 1885-1975, Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press.