Architecture as an important cultural discipline has long been understood to be able lift the spirits, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely addressed directly in academic scholarship. This book argues that, even though the post-modern condition has transgressed, degraded or superseded shared belief systems and symbolic languages, the experience, significance and meaning of the built environment retains a certain kind of veracity, potency and latent receptivity. Even though the authors' approach the subject from a range of disciplines and theoretical positions, all share interests in the need to rediscover, redefine or reclaim the sacred in everyday experience, scholarly analysis, and design.Bringing together recognized experts in the fields of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and religious studies, this volume features essays that provide contemporary perspectives regarding the nature and significance of the sacred in the built environment. The twenty-one essays are divided and grouped according to topical themes: Sacred - Secular - and the Contemporary Condition, Being in the World, Spirituality and Designed Environments, Symbolic Engagements, Ceremonial Order and Built and Natural Sacred Environments. They provide a range of conclusions regarding the relevance and importance of incorporating spiritual perspectives in the analysis, design and built-works. Many share the position that the creation of built environments, which more thoroughly live up to our spiritual and ontological needs and aspirations, depends on greater inclusive, humanist and transcendent orientations.