The religious imagination in modern and contemporary architecture
Subtitle: a reader
By: [edited by] Renata Hejduk and Jim Williamson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780415780803; 9780415780810
Subjects: Imagination; Architecture and religion; Modern Architecture; Religious aspects; Themes, motives; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The apocryphal project of modern and contemporary architecture / Renata Hejduk and Jim Williamson; title: Religion and myth / Luis Barragán; title: When the sacred journey ends: protestant thought and the meaning of puritanical modern architecture / Thomas H. Beeby; title: Modernity / Gustavo Benavides; title: Shiva, Luria, Kahn / Michael Benedikt; title: The architecture of hope: Daniel Libekind's Jewish museum / Andrew Benjamin; title: 'Art and society' from 1909 / Hendrik Petrus Berlage; title: Revolution and revelation: Luis Barragán's divergent modernism / José Bernardi; title: Notes from volume zero: Louis Kahn and the language of God / Joseph Burton; title: Ecclesia / Massimo Cacciari; title: The godless temple, 'oragnon of the infinite' / Peter Carl; title: The Woodland cemetery: towards a spiritual landscape, Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz 1915-1961 / Caroline Constant; title: The public, the private, and the sacred / Charles Correa; title: A dwelling for man within the harmony of the cosmos / Maria Antonietta Crippa; title: Excellence: the culture of Mies as seen in his notes and books / Francesco Dal Co; title: The sacred and the modern artist / Mircea Eliade; title: Re: Neoconservative architecture, neoconservative politics: a mighty fortess: Quinlan Terry and the reformation of architecture / Martin Filler and Quinlan Terry; title: Transcendental renaissance in the arts 1890-1920 / Raymond H. Geselbracht; title: Explorations of Jewish space 1978-present / David Gissen; title: Spiritual basis of creativity / Paul Goesch (Tancred); title: Architecture's destiny / K. Michael Hays; title: The sweet juice bled / John Hejduk; title: The wallpaper / John Hejduk; title: Step into liquid: rites, transcendence, and transgression in the modern construction of the social sacred / Renata Hejduk; title: J.L.M. Lauweriks and K.P.C. de Bazel: architecture and theosophy / Susan R. Henderson; title: The architectural metaphor / Denis Hollier; title: Rudolf Schwarz: modern churches in a modern culture / Richard Kieckhefer; title: Leon Krier's theology of traditionalism: an interview with Peter Eisenman / Leon Krier and Peter Eisenman; title: Formal, informal, and Jewish question / Sanford Kwinter; title: Cathedral without walls: theosophical modernism for American democracy / Jonathan Massey; title: Frank Lloyd Wright: "the architect as preacher" / Debra A. Meyers; title: The task of architecture / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; title: Beauty is the radiance of truth / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; title: St. Savior Chapel, IIT Campus, Chicago / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; title: Alchemical and mythical themes in the poem of the right angle 1947-1965 / Richard A. Moore; title: The Aura of the sacred: art, architecture, and existential sacredness / Juhani Pallasmaa; title: Abstraction in modern architecture: the Gnostic dimension / Alberto Pérez-Gómez; title: Eschatology / Colin Rowe; title: The dark side of the Bauhaus / Joseph Rykwert; title: The foundation / Rudolf Schwarz; title: Prayer for a house / David Shapiro; title: "Mein Weltbild" (my world-picture), 19 October 1920 / Bruno Taut (Glas); title: Nuclear architecture or fabulous architecture or tragic architecture or ... / Mark C. Taylor; title: Purity / Mark C. Taylor; title: Architecture and theology / Quinlan Terry; title: Construction (de)construction (re)construction: architectural antinomies and a (re)newed beginning / Stanley Tigerman; title: The ideal of holy emptiness / Paul Tillich; title: Living and working in paradise / Richard Wesley; title: The crystal chain / Iain Boyd Whyte; title: Cosmopolitan architectures: notes on drawing / Jim Williamson.