June 2012

Sri Aurobindo and Einstein’s theory of relativity

  Sri Aurobindo is a poet and yogi of the unknown eternal heights. In his epic Savitri which he has written from a very high plane of yogic consciousness he finds ‘Space’ as ‘a vast experiment of the soul, the soul which is a portion of the Divine in the constitution of the being of man, more to say, the individual poise of the Supreme Divine at the centre of the being of man. Since...

Author(s): Nikhil Kumar

June 2012

The reflections of the concept of beauty in the religious architecture: The example of the Ottoman period between the 13th and 17th centuries

  Based on the assumption that religious concepts affect the architecture and therefore, that the concepts have their own inherent languages, this study seeks to find the reflections of the concept of beauty in the religious architecture. In other words, the study attempts to answer the extent of the effect of the concept of beauty on the architectural formation of religious buildings. The concept of beauty and...

Author(s): Reyhan AKAT, Birgül ÇAKIROÄžLU and I. Raci BAYER