Seeking the Sacred in Contemporary Religious Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeking the Sacred in Contemporary Religious Architecture write by Douglas R. Hoffman. This book was released on 2010. Seeking the Sacred in Contemporary Religious Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collaborative publishing venture between the Kent State University Press and Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs' Center for Sacred Landmarks, The Sacred Landmarks Series includes both works of scholarship and general interest that preserve history and increase understanding of religious sites, structures, and organizations in Northeast Ohio, in the United States, and around the world. This is a compelling study of what makes a sacred place sacred.
Searching for Sacred Space
Searching for Sacred Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Searching for Sacred Space write by John Ander Runkle. This book was released on 2002. Searching for Sacred Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every Sunday we walk through those doors and enter a sacred space. It is familiar, maybe comforting--or maybe not. It might be downright uncomfortable and unwelcoming. What can we do about it? In twelve thoughtful and provocative essays, the writers ask important questions about the relationship between sacred spaces and the worship that takes place in them: -How do our buildings convey a vision of God's kingdom on earth? -How are our places of worship reflecting our beliefs? -In what visible, tangible forms are we proclaiming a faith in the living God? -How are our church buildings helping this church bring the Gospel into a new century?
New Spiritual Architecture
New Spiritual Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Spiritual Architecture write by Phyllis Richardson. This book was released on 2004. New Spiritual Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
Modern Architecture and the Sacred
Modern Architecture and the Sacred - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Architecture and the Sacred write by Ross Anderson. This book was released on 2020-11-26. Modern Architecture and the Sacred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Rituals and Walls
Rituals and Walls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rituals and Walls write by Pier Vittorio Aureli. This book was released on 2016. Rituals and Walls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
