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100			_aBritton, Karla _969184
245			_aConstructing the Ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture
260			_aNew Haven _bYale University Press _c2010
300			_a244p.
505			_aCONTENTS 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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