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Professor Thomas Barrie’s article Symbols of a Sacred Landscape: Tongdo Zen Buddhist Monastery, Korea was recently published in Faith & Form (No. 3, 2010).
Professor Thomas Barrie, AIA, presented a lecture at the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, The University of Idaho, as part of their fall lecture series. The event included a book [...]

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Professor Thomas Barrie’s article “Symbols of a Sacred Landscape: Tongdo Zen Buddhist Monastery, Korea” was recently published in Faith & Form (No. 3, 2010).
Barrie also recently lectured at the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, The University of Idaho, as part of that school’s fall lecture series. The event included a book sale and signing [...]

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How does a filmmaker creatively interpret the issues of homelessness by using animation? That was the task given to graduate and undergraduate students in the Advanced Media Lab at North Carolina State University. The students became involved with the Home Is Not One Story project in collaboration with the Town of Chapel [...]

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Five affordable housing developments received Housing North Carolina Awards on November 3 during the N.C. Affordable Housing Conference at the Raleigh Convention Center. Architecture students from the College of Design designed the architectural theme and facades for Barrington Village, one of the winners, creating a cohesive streetscape by giving the homes front porches and matching [...]

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Professor of Architecture Thomas Barrie’s book The Sacred In-between: The Mediating Roles of Sacred Places will be published by Routledge in February 2010. The book establishes broadened contexts, approaches and understandings of architecture through the lens of the mediating roles often performed by sacred architecture. Its principle argument is that, similar to the intermediary roles [...]

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