3.13

1. Models of the Cosmos
2. Models of Perfection and the Ideal
3. Ambulatory = a place where you walk/Circumambulate = to walk in a circle or walk around
   
4. Axis Mundi
   
1. difference between the absolute center such as the vatican and the the center per culture
   
5. Borobadur/ Indonesia
6. Mahadeva Temple of Khajuraho, India
7. San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy
8. Chartes Cathedral, France - the building itself is a mandala
1. arranged with the sunrise in the east
2. jerusalem in the west
3. a pilgrimmage for each individual takes place within the building
9. Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

• discussion of Mandala's
• always the center of your sacred world
• labyrinth's are part of some of the structures
• single entrance, single center ->never take you to a dead end
  


• Tibetan Sand Painting of the Compassionate Buddha
• requires meditation
• use natural resources to make
  
• temporary/impermanent ->goes back to nature
  
• precision, accuracy, ideal,directional
• a structure that's been flattened into a 2D art form
• monk sweeps up sand when it's done and finds flowing water to take the sand away
• starts in the center and work way out
  

• God the Architect

• based on the book of Genesis
• idea of perfection
• once believed that the earth was the center of the universe "terracentric" belief
• Galeleo noticed that the stars were moving -> "heliocentric" belief