Constructing the Ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture
Britton, Karla
Constructing the Ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture - New Haven Yale University Press 2010 - 244p.
CONTENTS
Preface Robert A. M. Stern 6
Introduction : Karla Cavarra Britton 8
Prologue : the case for sacred architecture /Karla Cavarra Britton 12
PART 1 ARCHITECTURE AND THE SACRED
Introduction 24
The earth, the temple and today /Vincent Scully 26
Untimely meditations on the need for sacred architecture /Kartsten Harries 48
Architecture, memory and the sacred /Miroslav Volf 60
Revealing concealment /Mark C. Taylor 66
Constructing the immaterial in spaces large and small /Emilie M. Townes 72
PART 2 PRECEDENTS : SACRED SPACES CONSTRUCTED AND IMAGINED
Rudolf Schwarz and Mies van der Rohe : the form of the spirit /Thomas H. Beeby 82
The secular spirituality of Tadao Ando /Kenneth Frampton 96
Temples of light /Diana Eck 112
Visionaries or lunatics? : architects of sacred space, even in outer space /Jaime Lara 120
PART 3 PERSPECTIVES : CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS OF THE INEFFABLE
Introduction 132
The tribe versus the city-state : a conundrum for the Jewish project /Stanley Tigerman 134
Jubilee Church (Dio Padre misericordioso), Rome /Richard Meier 148
Architecture as a vehicle for religious experience : the Los Angeles Cathedral /Rafael Moneo 158
Faith and form : contemporary space for worship and pilgrimage /Fariborz Sahba 170
Theistic polytheistic non-theistic /Steven Holl (with David Van der Leer) 182
The architecture of memory : seeking the sacred /Moshe Safdie 192
Is there a religious space in the twenty-first century? /Peter Eisenman 206
The contemporary mosque /Zaha Hadid 216
Epilogue : on the relevance of sacred architecture today /Paul Goldberger 222
Contributors 232
Acknowledgements 236
Index 237
Image Credits 244
9780300170375
726 / BRI
Constructing the Ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture - New Haven Yale University Press 2010 - 244p.
CONTENTS
Preface Robert A. M. Stern 6
Introduction : Karla Cavarra Britton 8
Prologue : the case for sacred architecture /Karla Cavarra Britton 12
PART 1 ARCHITECTURE AND THE SACRED
Introduction 24
The earth, the temple and today /Vincent Scully 26
Untimely meditations on the need for sacred architecture /Kartsten Harries 48
Architecture, memory and the sacred /Miroslav Volf 60
Revealing concealment /Mark C. Taylor 66
Constructing the immaterial in spaces large and small /Emilie M. Townes 72
PART 2 PRECEDENTS : SACRED SPACES CONSTRUCTED AND IMAGINED
Rudolf Schwarz and Mies van der Rohe : the form of the spirit /Thomas H. Beeby 82
The secular spirituality of Tadao Ando /Kenneth Frampton 96
Temples of light /Diana Eck 112
Visionaries or lunatics? : architects of sacred space, even in outer space /Jaime Lara 120
PART 3 PERSPECTIVES : CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS OF THE INEFFABLE
Introduction 132
The tribe versus the city-state : a conundrum for the Jewish project /Stanley Tigerman 134
Jubilee Church (Dio Padre misericordioso), Rome /Richard Meier 148
Architecture as a vehicle for religious experience : the Los Angeles Cathedral /Rafael Moneo 158
Faith and form : contemporary space for worship and pilgrimage /Fariborz Sahba 170
Theistic polytheistic non-theistic /Steven Holl (with David Van der Leer) 182
The architecture of memory : seeking the sacred /Moshe Safdie 192
Is there a religious space in the twenty-first century? /Peter Eisenman 206
The contemporary mosque /Zaha Hadid 216
Epilogue : on the relevance of sacred architecture today /Paul Goldberger 222
Contributors 232
Acknowledgements 236
Index 237
Image Credits 244
9780300170375
726 / BRI