America S Religious Architecture

Author : Marilyn J. Chiat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471145025

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America's Religious Architecture by Marilyn J. Chiat Pdf

From the Moorish synagogue in small Texas town, to the New England meetinghouse nestled in the palm trees of Hawaii, this comprehensive historical survey of America's religious architecture celebrates the country's ethnic and spiritual diversity through the magnificent breadth of these community landmarks. The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of its kind, the book features 500 places of worship nationwide, many listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Includes over 300 black-and-white photographs and foreword by Bill Moyers, creator of the PBS "Genesis" series.

Author : Anat Geva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351665339

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Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture by Anat Geva Pdf

Mid-20th century sacred architecture in America sought to bridge modernism with religion by abstracting cultural and faith traditions and pushing the envelope in the design of houses of worship. Modern architects embraced the challenges of creating sacred spaces that incorporated liturgical changes, evolving congregations, modern architecture, and innovations in building technology. The book describes the unique context and design aspects of the departure from historicism, and the renewal of heritage and traditions with ground-breaking structural features, deliberate optical effects and modern aesthetics. The contributions, from a pre-eminent group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Australia, and Europe are based on original archival research, historical documents, and field visits to the buildings discussed. Investigating how the authority of the divine was communicated through new forms of architectural design, these examinations map the materiality of liturgical change and communal worship during the mid-20th century.

Author : Peter W. Williams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252047381

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Houses of God by Peter W. Williams Pdf

Houses of God is the first broad survey of American religious architecture, a cultural cross-country expedition that will benefit travelers as much as scholars. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 photographs — some by well-known photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange — this handsome book provides a highly accessible look at how Americans shape their places of worship into multifaceted reflections of their culture, beliefs, and times.

Author : Jay M. Price
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780199925957

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Temples for a Modern God by Jay M. Price Pdf

After World War II, Americans constructed an unprecedented number of synagogues, churches, cathedrals, chapels, and other structures. The book is one of the first major studies of American religious architecture in the postwar period, and it reveals the diverse and complicated set of issues that emerged just as one of the nation's biggest building booms unfolded. Price argues that the resulting structures, as often mocked as loved, were physical embodiments of an important time in American religious history.

Author : Jeffery W. Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822034463562

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Houses of Worship by Jeffery W. Howe Pdf

A guidebook to the architectural styles of American churches and temples, Houses of Worship is highly illustrated with color photographs and explanatory line drawings. A survey of American religious architecture, this book is a history of the development of American religious history, a guidebook to assist in the identification of the style of individual buildings based on historical examples of typical buildings, and a travel guide to regional monuments of interesting architecture.

Author : Bartlett H. Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015020387448

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Tradition Becomes Innovation by Bartlett H. Hayes Pdf

Author : Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195179722

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When Church Became Theatre by Jeanne Halgren Kilde Pdf

In the 1880s, socio-economic and technological changes in the United States contributed to the rejection of Christian architectural traditions and the development of the radically new auditorium church. Jeanne Kilde links this shift in evangelical Protestant architecture to changes in worship style and religious mission.

Author : K Moore,H -U Khan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503589359

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The Religious Architecture of Islam by K Moore,H -U Khan Pdf

The Religious Architecture of Islam is a wide-ranging multi-author study of the architectural traditions associated with the religion of Islam across the globe. A total of 59 essays by 48 authors are presented across two volumes, Volume 1: Asia and Australia and Volume 2: Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Essays address major themes across historical and contemporary periods of Islam and provide more focused studies of developments unique to specific regions and historical periods. The essays cover Islamic religious architecture broadly defined, including mosques, madrasas, saints' shrines, and funerary architecture. The Religious Architecture of Islam both provides an introduction to the history of Islamic architecture and reflects the most recent scholarship within the field.

Author : Margaret M. Grubiak
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813943756

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Monumental Jesus by Margaret M. Grubiak Pdf

The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale. In her lively study of satire and religious architecture, Margaret Grubiak challenges how we typically view such sites by shifting the focus from believers to doubters, and from producers to consumers. Grubiak considers an array of sacred architectural constructions—from "Touchdown Jesus" at the University of Notre Dame to the Wizard of Oz Mormon temple outside Washington D.C. to the renamed "Gumby Jesus" of the Christ of the Ozarks statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas - and how such constructions are confronted by the doubt and dismissiveness articulated by the more skeptical of their viewers. These responses of doubt activate our religious built environment in ways unanticipated but illuminating, asking us, at times forcefully, to consider and clarify what it is we believe. Opening up new avenues of thinking about how people deal with theological questions in the vernacular, Grubiak’s book shows how religious doubt is made manifest in the humorous, satirical, blasphemous, and popular culture responses to religious architecture and image in modern America. Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design

Author : Henry Stolzman,Daniel Stolzman
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864700742

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Synagogue Architecture in America by Henry Stolzman,Daniel Stolzman Pdf

This full colour publication explores the rich and diverse response to the quest to sustain the Hebrew heritage that has resulted in prominent designs.

Author : Paul Eli Ivey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0252024451

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Prayers in Stone by Paul Eli Ivey Pdf

The classical revival style of architecture made famous by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago left its mark on one of the most sustained classical building movements in American architectural history: the Christian Science church building movement. By 1920 every major American city and many smaller towns contained an example of this architecture, financed by the followers of Mary Baker Eddy, the church's founder. These buildings represented a new, burgeoning American institution that appealed to business people and to young men and women working to succeed. Characterized by middle-class congregations that in the early part of the century were over 75 percent women, Christian Science suggested radical civic reform solutions based on an idealistic and pragmatic individualism. It attracted criticism from traditional churches and from the medical establishment due to its rapid growth and to its reinstatement of primitive Christianity's lost elements of physical healing and moral regeneration. Prayers in Stone spins out the close connections between Christian Science church architecture and its social context. This architecture served as a focal point for debates over the possibilities for a new twentieth-century urban architecture that proponents believed would positively shape the behavior of citizens. Thus these buildings played a critical role in discussions concerning religious and secular architecture as major elements of religious and social reform. Drawing on a wide range of documentary evidence, including material from the archives of the Mother Church in Boston, Paul Ivey uses Christian Science architecture to explore the social implications of architecturalstyles and new building technologies, to illuminate class-based notions of civic reform and beautification, and to investigate the use of architecture to bring about religious and social change. In addition, the book explores complex gender issues, including early attempts to define a professional space for women as Christian Science practitioners. Lavishly illustrated, Prayers in Stone focuses on four major city arenas of Christian Science building -- Boston, Chicago, New York, and the San Francisco Bay area -- to demonstrate the vital intersection of architecture and religion at the so-called margins of American society.

Author : John H. Stubbs,Emily G. Makaš
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470901113

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Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas by John H. Stubbs,Emily G. Makaš Pdf

“From such well-known and long-vexed sites as the Athenian Acropolis to more contemporary locales like the Space Age Modernist capital city of Brasília, the conflicting and not always neatly resolvable forces that bear upon preservation are addressed as clearly and thoughtfully as the general reader could hope for.”—New York Review of Books “...an astonishing feat of research, compilation and synthesis.”—Context The book delivers the first major survey concerning the conservation of cultural heritage in both Europe and the Americas. Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas serves as a convenient resource for professionals, students, and anyone interested in the field. Following the acclaimed Time Honored, this book presents contemporary practice on a country-by-country and region-by-region basis, facilitating comparative analysis of similarities and differences. The book stresses solutions in architectural heritage protection and the contexts in which they were developed.

Author : James Pallister
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714868957

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Sacred Spaces by James Pallister Pdf

A ground‐breaking and enlightening exploration of the structures which elevate architecture to spirituality. Sacred Spaces showcases 30 of the most breath‐taking, innovative, iconic and undiscovered examples of contemporary religious architecture, including work by well‐known architects alongside emerging designers. Spanning all major religions and places of worship from intimate, reflective chapels and cemeteries to dramatic cathedrals and memorials, Sacred Spaces documents each project with lavish‐in‐depth photography and drawings and texts by James Pallister that provide a modern historical context. An inspiring collection and thorough survey, the buildings in Sacred Spaces will appeal to architects and designers as well as the general public intrigued by creative culture, religion and spirituality.

Author : Julio Bermudez
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813226798

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Transcending Architecture by Julio Bermudez Pdf

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Author : Phoebe B. Stanton
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801856221

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The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture by Phoebe B. Stanton Pdf

This illustrated account of the impact of the English Gothic revival on American church architecture in the mid-nineteenth century finds that this fundamentally conservative movement provided the foundation for a new, influential aesthetic. With meticulous research and carefully chosen illustrations, Phoebe Stanton here explores the influence of the English Gothic revival on American church architecture in the mid-nineteenth century, arguing that this fundamentally conservative movement provided a foundation for a new aesthetic. Examining the writings of the movement's leading proponents as well as a variety of important buildings, Stanton offers a comprehensive survey of the architectural principles and models that became most influential in America. She also confirms the importance of the Cambridge Camden Society, which provided the theoretical atmosphere and practical examples that helped to establish new standards of excellence in American architecture.