Constructing the ineffable
Subtitle: contemporary sacred architecture
By: Karla Cavarra Britton, editor
Publisher: Yale School of Architecture; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780300170375
Subjects: Religious architecture; Architecture and society; Modern Architecture; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : the case for sacred architecture  -- Karla Cavarra Britton; title: The earth, the temple and today  -- Vincent Scully; title: Untimely meditations on the need for sacred architecture  -- Kartsten Harries; title: Architecture, memory and the sacred  -- Miroslav Volf; title: Revealing concealment  -- Mark C. Taylor; title: Constructing the immaterial in spaces large and small  -- Emilie M. Townes; title: Rudolf Schwarz and Mies van der Rohe : the form of the spirit  -- Thomas H. Beeby; title: The secular spirituality of Tadao Ando  -- Kenneth Frampton; title: Temples of light  -- Diana Eck; title: Visionaries or lunatics? : architects of sacred space, even in outer space  -- Jaime Lara; title: The tribe versus the city-state : a conundrum for the Jewish project  -- Stanley Tigerman; title: Jubilee Church (Dio Padre misericordioso), Rome  -- Richard Meier; title: Architecture as a vehicle for religious experience : the Los Angeles Cathedral  -- Rafael Moneo; title: Faith and form : contemporary space for worship and pilgrimage  -- Fariborz Sahba; title: Theistic--polytheistic--non-theistic  -- Steven Holl (with David Van der Leer); title: The architecture of memory : seeking the sacred  -- Moshe Safdie -- Is there a religious space in the twenty-first century? / -- Peter Eisenman; title: The contemporary mosque  -- Zaha Hadid; title: Epilogue : on the relevance of sacred architecture today -- Paul Goldberger.