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the magic of architecture
by herbert bangs m.arch.

when we speak of sacred architecture we are not speaking just of churches and temples, but of all buildings that are designed in accordance with the laws of sacred geometry. sacred geometry, unlike the euclidian geometry we learned in school, is primarily concerned with the esoteric and symbolic significance of geometrical forms, rather than their logical development and mundane application. when the principles of sacred geometry are understood and correctly applied in the design and construction of buildings, those buildings will possess a "magical" power that can speak to the deeper layers of our awareness and effect changes in the structure of our lives. few buildings designed in our time possess this power and deserve to be called "sacred" architecture.
parthenon

the principles of sacred geometry, however, lie behind the design of all of the great buildings of the past. the parthenon, for instance, has been admired for centuries as an example of the application of geometric beauty to architectural design. when i studied architecture at the university of pennsylvania, the famous front elevation was shown in an art history course to demonstrate the application of the golden rectangle to the design of the building, but no explanation of the mathematical significance of the form, much less the esoteric significance, was ever given. the other shapes, forms and ratios upon which architects based their designs from remote antiquity until the middle of the twentieth century were not even mentioned. the popular wisdom is that architects are supposed to be good at mathematics, but the only mathematics taught in our architectural schools is the mundane arithmetic required for the simplified engineering design thought suitable for architects. the kind of mathematics that produced the parthenon is never discussed.