Sacred Concrete

Author : Flora Samuel,Inge Linder-Gaillard
Publisher : Birkhaüser
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822038975470

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Sacred Concrete by Flora Samuel,Inge Linder-Gaillard Pdf

Le Corbusier not only designed and built churches; he was also intensely interested in religion and faith. His work deeply influenced church architecture in the twentieth century. This book examines Le Corbusier's relationship with religion in two introductory chapters, presents his four designs for La Sainte-Baume, the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut de Ronchamp, the Cloister of La Tourette, and the Church of St. Pierre, and, in the final chapter, examines his influence on church architecture in Europe in the twentieth century. Examples include the Jubilee Church near Rome by Richard Meier, the Chapel of Saint Ignatius in Seattle by Steven Holl, the Santa Maria Church in Porto by lvaro Siza, Tadao Ando's Meditation Space in Paris, as well as the Kapelle der Vers hnung (Church of Reconciliation) in Berlin by Reitermann & Sassenroth. Flora Samuel holds a PhD in architecture and teaches design and architecture history at the University of Bath, UK, and is the author of numerous publications. Inge Linder-Galliard also holds a PhD in architecture and has researched and written about Le Corbusier's work in numerous essays.

Author : Ross Anderson,Maximilian Sternberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350098718

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Modern Architecture and the Sacred by Ross Anderson,Maximilian Sternberg Pdf

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.

Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar,R.J. Zwi Werblowsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781349140848

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Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land by Benjamin Z. Kedar,R.J. Zwi Werblowsky Pdf

Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land - a collection of articles that deal with Holy Places from Antiquity to the present; from the lands of the Fertile Crescent to Europe, India, Japan and Mexico; from mountains and seas to temples, cities and countries; from the construction, perception and functioning of sacred sites to the psychotic breakdowns they bring on some visitors.

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0252064011

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Producing the Sacred by Robert Wuthnow Pdf

What is public religion? How does it manifest the sacred? Wuthnow states that cultural expressions, religious or otherwise, do not simply happen but are produced. He considers the major organizational forms that produce public religion, shows how they shape public religion's messages, and reveals the implicit and unintended ways in which the sacred is expressed in modern society.

Author : Yuval Jobani,Nahshon Perez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190932404

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Governing the Sacred by Yuval Jobani,Nahshon Perez Pdf

Holy sites are often at the center of intense contestation between different groups regarding a wide variety of issues, including ownership, access, usage rights, permissible religious conduct, and many others. They are often the source of intractable long-standing conflicts and extreme violence. These difficulties are exemplified by the five sites profiled in Governing the Sacred: Devils Tower National Monument (Wyoming, US), Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi (Uttar-Pradesh, India), the Western Wall (Jerusalem), the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), and the Temple Mount/Haram esh-Sharif (Jerusalem). Telling the fascinating stories of these high-profile contested sites, the authors develop and critically explore five different models of governing such sites: "non-interference," "separation and division," "preference," "status-quo," and "closure." Each model relies on different sets of considerations; central among them are trade-offs between religious liberty and social order. This novel typology aims to assist democratic governments in their attempt to secure public order and mutual toleration among opposed groups in contested sacred sites.

Author : Laura Stark
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789517465786

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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises by Laura Stark Pdf

Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of ritulas and beliefs involving nature spirits, saints, the dead, and pilgrimage to monasteries represented a unigue fusion of official Church ritual and doctrine and pre-Christian ethnic folk belief. This book undertakes a fascinating exploration into many aspects of Orthodox Karelian ritual life: beliefs in supernatural forces, folk models of illness, body concepts, divination, holy icons, the role of the ritual specialist and healer, the divide between nature and culture, images of forest, the cult of the dead, and the popular image of monasteries and holy hermits. It will appeal to anyone interested in popular religion, the cognitive study of religion, ritual studies, medical anthropology, and the folk traditions and symbolism of the Balto-Finnic peoples.

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : Edizioni Terra Santa
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10T10:24:00+01:00
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788862408509

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Holy Land. Archaeology on Either Side by AA. VV. Pdf

The title of the volume may be a little perplexing: Archaeology on Either Side. But on either side of what? The picture we chose for the front cover might give an indication of the answer. This image shows two sides of the River Jordan – the Israeli side and the Jordanian side – both part of the Holy Land! Or we might understand the “either side” of our topic in another way, that is, archaeology both as the study of artifacts and archaeology as the study of literary sources. In the contributions the reader will find all these topics and much more: essays on excavations or archaeological findings in the Holy Land as defined above, and essays on literary sources linked to the history of the ancient Near East, especially in the time of the Christian/Common Era (CE). The book is made up of three main sections: “Excavations and Topographical Surveys”; “Architecture, Decorations, and Art”; “Epigraphy and Sigillography”. Some articles touch on more than one specific section, so they may be found between sections.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Cement
ISBN : NYPL:33433094083833

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Concrete by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abraham Kuyper
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781435757905

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Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles by Abraham Kuyper Pdf

This is the English translation of Abraham Kuyper's magisterial volume on the principles of theology. This work had a profound influence on conservative twentieth century Reformed theology, but has been out of print since the late 19th century. In it, Kuyper covers the place of theology among the sciences, the method and history of theology, the effects of sin, the doctrine of inspiration, and much more. The introduction is by Prof. B. B. Warfield. This beautiful new edition has been carefully edited and prepared. It is the first unabridged version to be republished in over one hundred years.

Author : Jonathan Koestle-Cate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317178484

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Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace by Jonathan Koestle-Cate Pdf

A vibrant critical exchange between contemporary art and Christianity is being increasingly prompted by an expanding programme of art installations and commissions for ecclesiastical spaces. Rather than 'religious art' reflecting Christian ideology, current practices frequently initiate projects that question the values and traditions of the host space, or present objects and events that challenge its visual conventions. In the light of these developments, this book asks what conditions are favourable to enhancing and expanding the possibilities of church-based art, and how can these conditions be addressed? What viable language or strategies can be formulated to understand and analyse art's role within the church? Focusing on concepts drawn from anthropology, comparative religion, art theory, theology and philosophy, this book formulates a lexicon of terms built around the notion of encounter in order to review the effective uses and experience of contemporary art in churches. The author concludes with the prognosis that art for the church has reached a critical and decisive phase in its history, testing the assumption that contemporary art should be a taken-for-granted element of modern church life. Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace uniquely combines conceptual analysis, critical case studies and practical application in a rigorous and inventive manner, dealing specifically with contemporary art of the past twenty-five years, and the most recent developments in the church's policies for the arts.

Author : Rosemary Muir Wright
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719055458

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Sacred Distance by Rosemary Muir Wright Pdf

"This book ... is concerned to open up some of the conditioning factors which reveal the concerns of the ecclesiastical authorities for the formal representation of Marian teaching. The following chapters aim to show how the Marian altarpiece was responsive both to developments in dogma and to major stylistic changes in the course of the period 1320-1630. These changes were grounded in the visual strategies by which the spatial and lighting systems of the painting reflected those of the viewer, so as to impart to the painted image the convition of reality derived from sensory experience. The book makes a distinction between the theological and the cult image in order to isolate those aspects of Marian devotion which the Church embraced as doctrinally important."--Preface, p. xii.

Author : Tim Benton
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035626575

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The Painter Le Corbusier by Tim Benton Pdf

In 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the elegant house in Roquebrune-Cap-Mar- tin in southern France is an icon of modernism. In 1937, Le Corbusier discovered the place and the “Maison en Bord de Mer”. Inspired by the genius of the place and the light on the Côte d'Azur, he created a total of eight large-format wall paintings there in 1938 and 1939 onwards, some of which complement the building congenially, while others set counterpoints. In 1952, he built his Cabanon nearby and decorated it with murals as well. The book by the well-known architectural historian Tim Benton documents Le Corbusier's artwork at this special place, explores its controversies, and places it in his overall oeuvre. The fascinating photographs by Manuel Bougot capture the special atmosphere of the villa Le Corbusier's painting is lesser known but was formative for his lifelong preoccupation with polychromy After extensive renovation work until 2021, E 1027, as well as the Cabanon, is open to the public again

Author : Harvey Whipple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Cement
ISBN : UOM:39015080384897

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Concrete by Harvey Whipple Pdf

Author : Rudolf Stegers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783764382766

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Sacred Buildings by Rudolf Stegers Pdf

The building of religious structures represents a rare opportunity for the architect to concentrate on the creation of volume, space, and form. Sacred architecture is far less determined than other building tasks by functional requirements, norms, and standards. As a rule, it is free to unfold as pure architecture. Thus in design terms this building task offers enormous freedoms to the architect. At the same time, however, the special atmospherics of sacred spaces call, on the part of the architect, for a highly sensitive treatment of religion and the relevant cultural and architectural traditions. In a systematic section, this volume introduces the design, technical, and planning fundamentals of building churches, synagogues, and mosques. In its project section, it also presents about seventy realized structures from the last three decades. Drawing upon his in-depth knowledge of the subject and his many years of publishing experience, the author offers a valuable analysis of the conceptual and formal aspects that combine to create the religious impact of spaces (e.g., the ground plan, the shapes of the spaces, the incidence of light, and materiality).

Author : Espen Dahl
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334048992

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Phenomenology and the Holy by Espen Dahl Pdf

SCM Veritas engages in critical and original questions of pressing concern to both philosophers and theologians. The major concern of all books in this series is to display a rigorous theological critique of categories not often thought to be theological in character, such as phenomenology or metaphysics which are mainly considered as philosophical categories. All the books in this series aim to illustrate that without theology, something essential is lost in our accounts of such categories not only in the abstract but in the way in which we inhabit the world. Phenomenology and the Holy is a study of the holy which attempts to find this both in the ordinary and in the sublime, thus challenging the reduction of the holy to a discrete and separated field of experience. Phenomenology is a key area of twentieth-century philosophy in which there is a wide interest, not only among philosophers but also among theologians and religious studies scholars.