Constructing the ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture /
Constructing the ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture /
Karla Cavarra Britton, editor.
- New Haven, Conn. : Yale School of Architecture : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2010.
- 244 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : the case for sacred architecture / The earth, the temple and today / Untimely meditations on the need for sacred architecture / Architecture, memory and the sacred / Revealing concealment / Constructing the immaterial in spaces large and small / Rudolf Schwarz and Mies van der Rohe : the form of the spirit / The secular spirituality of Tadao Ando / Temples of light / Visionaries or lunatics? : architects of sacred space, even in outer space / The tribe versus the city-state : a conundrum for the Jewish project / Jubilee Church (Dio Padre misericordioso), Rome / Architecture as a vehicle for religious experience : the Los Angeles Cathedral / Faith and form : contemporary space for worship and pilgrimage / Theistic--polytheistic--non-theistic / The architecture of memory : seeking the sacred / The contemporary mosque / Epilogue : on the relevance of sacred architecture today / Karla Cavarra Britton -- Vincent Scully -- Kartsten Harries -- Miroslav Volf -- Mark C. Taylor -- Emilie M. Townes -- Thomas H. Beeby -- Kenneth Frampton -- Diana Eck -- Jaime Lara -- Stanley Tigerman -- Richard Meier -- Rafael Moneo -- Fariborz Sahba -- Steven Holl (with David Van der Leer) -- Moshe Safdie -- Is there a religious space in the twenty-first century? / Peter Eisenman -- Zaha Hadid -- Paul Goldberger.
9780300170375 0300170378
2010037918
GBB0C1763 bnb
Religious architecture.
Architecture, Modern--21st century.
Architecture and society--History--20th century.
NA4600 / .C62 2010
726
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : the case for sacred architecture / The earth, the temple and today / Untimely meditations on the need for sacred architecture / Architecture, memory and the sacred / Revealing concealment / Constructing the immaterial in spaces large and small / Rudolf Schwarz and Mies van der Rohe : the form of the spirit / The secular spirituality of Tadao Ando / Temples of light / Visionaries or lunatics? : architects of sacred space, even in outer space / The tribe versus the city-state : a conundrum for the Jewish project / Jubilee Church (Dio Padre misericordioso), Rome / Architecture as a vehicle for religious experience : the Los Angeles Cathedral / Faith and form : contemporary space for worship and pilgrimage / Theistic--polytheistic--non-theistic / The architecture of memory : seeking the sacred / The contemporary mosque / Epilogue : on the relevance of sacred architecture today / Karla Cavarra Britton -- Vincent Scully -- Kartsten Harries -- Miroslav Volf -- Mark C. Taylor -- Emilie M. Townes -- Thomas H. Beeby -- Kenneth Frampton -- Diana Eck -- Jaime Lara -- Stanley Tigerman -- Richard Meier -- Rafael Moneo -- Fariborz Sahba -- Steven Holl (with David Van der Leer) -- Moshe Safdie -- Is there a religious space in the twenty-first century? / Peter Eisenman -- Zaha Hadid -- Paul Goldberger.
9780300170375 0300170378
2010037918
GBB0C1763 bnb
Religious architecture.
Architecture, Modern--21st century.
Architecture and society--History--20th century.
NA4600 / .C62 2010
726