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Symbolic houses in Judaism : how objects and metaphors construct hybrid places of belonging / Mimi Levy Lipis.

By: Lipis, Mimi Levy.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Ashgate studies in architecture series: Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011Description: xvi, 246 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9781409421047 ; 9781409421047 .Other title: How objects and metaphors construct hybrid places of belonging.Subject(s): Dwellings -- Symbolic aspects | Judaism and architecture | Jewish art and symbolism -- Themes, motives | Home -- Religious aspects -- JudaismDDC classification: 296.46
Contents:
Introduction -- Situating the house. Architectural foundations -- influences from gender studies -- Strategies of analysis -- The ritual houses. The iconography of the house in ritual objects -- The local -- The land of Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple -- The Hebrew Bible -- God's presence -- Hybrid spaces -- The house as a metaphor. The book as house -- The community as house -- The covenant as house -- Women, building, and God -- Spaces and places in the Sukkah. Approaching the Sukkah -- Textual constructions -- Spatial manifestations -- Of gardens and cities -- Beyond architecture.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Reference MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Reference 296.46 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Reference 00158812
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the covenant with god as house). This unique pairing is explored as place-making tools which exist in a constant state of tension between diaspora and belonging. Containing many photographs of historical and contemporary artefacts from Europe, Israel and the United States, this book maps out the intersection of architecture, Jewish studies, cultural and gender studies and opens up the discussion of distinctly Jewish objects and metaphors to discourses taking place outside explicitly Jewish contexts.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-237) and index.

Introduction -- Situating the house. Architectural foundations -- influences from gender studies -- Strategies of analysis -- The ritual houses. The iconography of the house in ritual objects -- The local -- The land of Israel, Jerusalem, and the temple -- The Hebrew Bible -- God's presence -- Hybrid spaces -- The house as a metaphor. The book as house -- The community as house -- The covenant as house -- Women, building, and God -- Spaces and places in the Sukkah. Approaching the Sukkah -- Textual constructions -- Spatial manifestations -- Of gardens and cities -- Beyond architecture.

UCC Fund.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Mimi Levy Lipis is an architect, curator, artist and researcher in cultural studies. She works on the material and symbolic aspects of space and the interdependence of the two. In her work she combines creative practice with theoretical analysis, reaching beyond disciplinary boundaries. She teaches gender studies, architecture, and Jewish studies at various universities worldwide and is the author of several books about Jewish spatial practices.

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