TY  - GEN
AU  - Britton, Karla
TI  - Constructing the Ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture
SN  - 9780300170375
U1  - 726 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  -  
N1  - 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


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