The Seven Godly Keys Towards Perfection: A Biblical Eternal Vision to Guide Achieving Permanent Meanings in Architecture and Worldview Exploring a Symbolism to Be Achieved in Canada and the Whole Globe

By Luay K. Buni

The history of human civilizations is lacking perfection. One theory replaces another, and no theory has ever been permanent in the worldview of all civilizations. In philosophy, the phenomenology philosophers admitted that all the history of philosophy included a meaningless conflict between two main attitudesthe ideal and the natural standpoints. They added that the truth should be based on an interrelation between those two standpoints to start a third new standpoint, which is yet to have a lot of understanding to come! There is no agreement on any permanent timeless and placeless absolute truths, which are true keys toward perfection, neither in philosophy nor in any other field in worldview.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524539542

Luay K. Buni

Luay Buni is an architect designer and researcher in the symbolism in architecture and the theories of design. For more than twenty-two years, he kept his theoretical and practical efforts to express meanings in designing different kinds of buildings. He is now an independent architectural designer and researcher living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He established his firm of L. K. Buni for architectural and engineering designs and supervision in April 1992 (Baghdad, Iraq). It was a full-time practical and theoretical period in designing and supervising many different projects until his arrival in Canada in August 2014. In 1992, he got his master’s degree in architecture from the Department of Architecture, College of Engineering in the University of Baghdad. The thesis was A Study in the Theoretic and Symbolic Dimensions of the Ancient Mesopotamian Architecture Using Phenomenology as a Procedure. In 1986, he got his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Department of Architecture, College of Engineering in the University of Baghdad. Timothy Radcliffe wrote the following about Luay’s new design typology after visiting Baghdad: “It was a sign of hope to see the workmen completing a building that might easily be destroyed within a week. The young architect explained that the building was intentionally a symbol of what the people were suffering. It looked as if it were cracked open, fractured and yet strong. He explained that it represented a people who are crucified and yet hope for healing” (The Tablet, Feb 28, 1998). In August 1997, Luay Buni delivered a lecture on “The Unbroken Broken in Architecture” during the JMJ in Paris, France. In June 1992, Luay Buni delivered a lecture on “Phenomenology and Architecture” at the Iraqi Architectural Society.

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CONTENTS

1) Preface:

2) The Question Concerning Perfection:

3) The Source of Perfection:

4) The Seven Godly Keys towards Perfection (a):

4-1) The Key of Unity in Architecture and the first letter to Ephesus:

4-2) The Key of The Unbroken broken in Architecture and the second letter to Smyrna:

4-3) The Key of Clarity in Architecture and the third letter to Pergamum:

4-4) The Key of Respecting Nature in Architecture And the Fourth letter to Thyatira:

4-5) The Key of Spiritual Dimensions in Architecture and the Fifth letter to Sardis:

4-6) The Key of the Meaningful and The Meaningless in Architecture and the sixth letter to Philadelphia:

4-7) The Key of Anti-Fanaticism in Architecture and the seventh letter to Laodicea:

5) Conclusions

6) References

1) Preface:

This study is to search for permanent absolute Truths; which are basic foundations in forming, shaping and making Architecture and The World View Timeless, Placeless, Perfect and Meaningful to all….

To search for permanent absolute Truths, means to search for Universal Truths which have timeless and placeless impact on everybody, regardless of their belongings, backgrounds and believes…

And to search for those permanent absolute Truths; means to search for the Eternal, which is a true search for Perfection….

This study concentrates on a multiple searching, which starts with philosophy, and all the related theories, to find out later that: No philosophical stand points, and No theories are permanent or perfect yet! And after failing to find answers in both philosophy and the related theories; the study suggests to go to the Bible as a later step, to search for the Eternal, showing how the Biblical Words can guide the way in dealing logically with permanent absolute Truths, to achieve Perfection…

This Biblical searching will be logical; and not religious, to finally confirm and find that the scripture’s ideals give theoretical and practical solutions, which are true universal answers to all the questions concerning the achieving of Perfection in Architecture and the entire World View, including everybody’s questions regardless of their belongings, backgrounds and believes. Our conclusions will reconfirm that those universal answers represent true keys to reach the entire goals of our study. We will also search many possibilities to achieve universal meanings in Canada, which are interrelated with other specific ones, in a procedure that can be applied worldwide, anywhere, and at any time….

2) The Question Concerning Perfection:

The question concerning the lack of perfection in Architecture is the very question concerning the lack of perfection in the Entire World View of human cultures in all history. The history of human civilizations has always been based on changing theories and ideals, which are continuously replaced by others, for they