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Sacred Spaces

Author : James Pallister
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714868957

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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.

Sacred Architecture

Author : Caroline Humphrey,Piers Vitebsky
Publisher : HarperThorsons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture and religion
ISBN : 0007662408

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Sacred Architecture by Caroline Humphrey,Piers Vitebsky Pdf

This is a vivid, richly illustrated exploration of the symbolism and significance of sacred architectural forms from spires and minarets to pyramids and temples.

New Spiritual Architecture

Author : Phyllis Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : UCSD:31822033204769

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"New Spiritual Architecture looks at ways in which contemporary architects are approaching religious or meditative space. The book focuses on churches, chapels, temples, synagogues and mosques that have been built in the last few years and that represent a late-twentieth/early-twenty-first century aesthetic. These buildings demonstrate how new ideas and developments in urban, domestic and public architecture are being used to inform design that is intended for inspiration, worship or meditation. The text discusses the ways in which architects manipulate light and space and considers the placement of these buildings in their surroundings. Following a brief introduction, the book explores the following five themes: New Traditions, Interventions, Retreats, Grand Icons, and Modest Magnificence. It includes 200 full-color illustrations and 100 line drawings."--BOOK JACKET.

The Church Building as a Sacred Place

Author : Duncan Stroik
Publisher : Liturgy Training Publications
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Catholic church buildings
ISBN : 9781595250377

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This collection of twenty-three essays by Duncan Stroik shows the development and consistency of his architectural vision. Packed with informative essays and over 170 photographs, this collection clearly articulates the Church’s architectural tradition.

Rituals and Walls

Author : Pier Vittorio Aureli,Maria Shéhérazade Giudici
Publisher : AA Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1907896635

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Rituals and Walls by Pier Vittorio Aureli,Maria Shéhérazade Giudici Pdf

"The idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in recent architecture, a neglect even more pronounced in terms of debates about the city.The texts and projects in this book aim to redress this oversight, and re-open a contemporary understanding of its relevance. The book itself is the result of a year-long investigation developed in the AA's Diploma Unit 14. It consists of design proposals that range from a mult-ifaith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian, China; from a Jesuit monastery in Detroit to a women's Islamic centre in Paris. The book is complemented by essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria Shéhérazade Giudici and Hamed Khosravi." -- Provided by publisher.

The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture

Author : Thomas Barrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134725229

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The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture by Thomas Barrie Pdf

The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an ‘in-between’ place. Establishing the contexts, approaches and understandings of architecture through the lens of the mediating roles often performed by sacred architecture, this book offers the reader an extraordinary insight into the forces behind these extraordinary buildings. Written by a well-known expert in the field, the book draws on a unique range of cases, reflecting on these inspiring places, their continuing ontological significance and the lessons they can offer today. Fascinating reading for anyone interested in sacred architecture.

Modern Architecture and the Sacred

Author : Ross Anderson,Maximilian Sternberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350098725

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This edited volume, Modern Architecture and the Sacred, presents a timely reappraisal of the manifold engagements that modern architecture has had with 'the sacred'. It comprises fourteen individual chapters arranged in three thematic sections – Beginnings and Transformations of the Modern Sacred; Buildings for Modern Worship; and Semi-Sacred Settings in the Cultural Topography of Modernity. The first interprets the intellectual and artistic roots of modern ideas of the sacred in the post-Enlightenment period and tracks the transformation of these in architecture over time. The second studies the ways in which organized religion responded to the challenges of the new modern self-understanding, and then the third investigates the ways that abstract modern notions of the sacred have been embodied in the ersatz sacred contexts of theatres, galleries, memorials and museums. While centring on Western architecture during the decisive period of the first half of the 20th century – a time that takes in the early musings on spirituality by some of the avant-garde in defiance of Sachlichkeit and the machine aesthetic – the volume also considers the many-varied appropriations of sacrality that architects have made up to the present day, and also in social and cultural contexts beyond the West.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Sacred Architecture

Author : Anat Geva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 0415775086

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A comprehensive study of the sacred buildings built and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this book offers scholarly discussion with analytical drawings and photographs. These projects represent different periods of Wright's career (from 1886 to 1958), new building technologies, and application of his design concepts as demonstrated in his sacred architecture. This unique contribution will be useful to all those interested in Wright's architecture and theory as well as in sacred architecture.

Sacred Architecture

Author : A. T. Mann
Publisher : Collins & Brown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1843333554

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From early astrological and mythical influences, which determined the location, form and function of early monuments, this book travels through history, showing how the reflection of images of earth and heaven in architecture has all but disappeared.

Sacred Power, Sacred Space

Author : Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199718105

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Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic character of Christianity and how church buildings shape and influence the religion. Kilde argues that a primary function of church buildings is to represent and reify three different types of power: divine power, or ideas about God; personal empowerment as manifested in the individual's perceived relationship to the divine; and social power, meaning the relationships between groups such as clergy and laity. Each type intersects with notions of Christian creed, cult, and code, and is represented spatially and materially in church buildings. Kilde explores these categories chronologically, from the early church to the twentieth century. She considers the form, organization, and use of worship rooms; the location of churches; and the interaction between churches and the wider culture. Church buildings have been integral to Christianity, and Kilde's important study sheds new light on the way they impact all aspects of the religion. Neither mere witnesses to transformations of religious thought or nor simple backgrounds for religious practice, church buildings are, in Kilde's view, dynamic participants in religious change and goldmines of information on Christianity itself.

Constructing the Ineffable

Author : Karla Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 0300170378

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Throughout the history of the built environment there has been no more significant endeavor than the construction of houses of worship, which were once the focal point around which civilizations and city-states developed. This book is the first to examine this topic across continents and from the perspective of multiple faiths. It addresses how sacred buildings are viewed in the context of contemporary architecture and religious practice.

Architecture of the Sacred

Author : Bonna D. Wescoat,Robert G. Ousterhout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107008236

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Architecture of the Sacred by Bonna D. Wescoat,Robert G. Ousterhout Pdf

This book investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures.

New Sacred Architecture

Author : Phyllis Richardson
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 9781856693844

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This timely book reflects an awakening of interest in religious faiths and the emergence of a 'global exchange of architecture and culture. While Spain's Rafael Moneo has recently completed a cathedral in Los Angeles, Britain's Thomas Heatherwick is designing a Buddhist temple in Japan, John Pawson is working on a Cistercian monastery in the Czech Republic and Richard Meier has completed his Jubilee Church in Rome. It seems, as one Wallpaper registered] pundit commented, 'religion is getting a redesign' and the architect's faith is as unimportant as his or her nationality. I Looking at ways in which contemporary architects are approaching religious or meditative space, this book focuses on churches, chapels, temples, synagogues and mosques that have been built in the last few years and that represent a late-twentieth/ early-twenty-first century aesthetic.

Transcending Architecture

Author : Julio Cesar Bermúdez
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813226798

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The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods

Author : Vincent Scully
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781595341778

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When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness. Subsequently, this comprehensive study of Greek temples and site-planning has been widely accepted as a landmark of architectural history, for it offers an inspired and arresting insight into nature and function of Greek sacred architecture. Vincent Scully, one of America's most brilliant and articulate scholars, understands the temples as physical embodiment of the gods in landscapes that had for the Greeks divine attributes and sacred connotations. He explores the meanings inherent in the calculated interaction between man-made sculptural forces and the natural landscape, and he relates this interaction to our understanding of Greek culture from the pre-Greek Aegean to the Hellenistic period. Years of research and travel were devoted to The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods. Scores of sites were restudied on the spot, including many lesser-known sanctuaries throughout the Hellenic world. The study includes reconstruction drawings, plans, and maps along with its richly illustrated, detailed discussions of major sites.