Divinity, creativity, complexity
By: [editor, Michael Benedikt]
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin. Center for American Architecture and Design; Kaufman, Gordon D.
Series: Center -- 15
Publisher: Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780934951111
Subjects: Architecture and religion; Architecture and biology; Architecture and philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning... creativity / Gordon D. Kaufman; title: Strange, hidden, holy: Religious experience in recent secular architecture / Willian S. Saunders; title: Science and the quest for cosmic purpose / John f. Haught; title: God, the architect of the universe; title: Universe, the architect of God / Charles Jencks; title: The argument from design(ers) / Michael Benedikt; title: Form and function: On biology and buildings / Michael Ruse; title: Sioux City Ghosts / Richard Becherer; title: The perennial way of design / Thomas Fisher; title: Feminist architecture, meet feminist ethics / Tom Spector; title: Modern to modern: Kahn and community; title: Light is like water: Luís Barragán and the question of magic / Sheryl Tucker de Vásquez; title: Emptiness and empty cross: Tadao Ando's Church of Light / Jin Baek; title: A desert land ethic: Aesthetic research / Álvaro Malo; title: Creativity, melancholy, and the divine: An architectural anomaly / Stanley Tigerman.