Title & Author:

Constructing the ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture / Karla Cavarra Britton, editor.

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale School of Architecture : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2010.

Description:

244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Robert A.M. Stern -- Introduction / Karla Cavarra Britton -- Prologue: The case for sacred architecture / Karla Cavarra Britton -- Part I: Architecture and the sacred. The earth, the temple and today / Vincent Scully ; Untimely meditations on the need for sacred architecture / Kartsten Harries ; Architecture, memory and the sacred / Miroslav Volf ; Revealing concealment / Mark C. Taylor ; Constructing the immaterial in spaces large and small / Emilie M. Townes -- Part II: Precedents : sacred spaces constructed and imagined. Rudolf Schwarz and Mies van der Rohe : the form of the spirit / Thomas H. Beeby ; The secular spirituality of Tadao Ando / Kenneth Frampton ; Temples of light / Diana Eck ; Visionaries or lunatics? : architects of sacred space, even in outer space / Jaime Lara -- Part III: Perspectives : contemporary expressions of the ineffable. The tribe versus the city-state : a conundrum for the Jewish project / Stanley Tigerman ; Jubilee Church (Dio Padre misericordioso), Rome / Richard Meier ; Architecture as a vehicle for religious experience : the Los Angeles Cathedral / Rafael Moneo ; Faith and form : contemporary space for worship and pilgrimage / Fariborz Sahba ; Theistic -- polytheistic -- non-theistic / Steven Holl (with David Van der Leer) ; The architecture of memory : seeking the sacred / Moshe Safdie ; Is there a religious space in the twenty-first century? / Peter Eisenman ; The contemporary mosque / Zaha Hadid -- Epilogue: On the relevance of sacred architecture today / Paul Goldberger.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300170375
0300170378

Subject:

Religious architecture.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture and society History 20th century.
Architecture religieuse.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
religious buildings.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern.
Sakralbau
Architektur

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Britton, Karla.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271599
Call No.: BIB 204804
Status: Available