Sacred Spaces : Contemporary Religious Architecture download pdf
Sacred Spaces : Contemporary Religious ArchitectureSacred Spaces : Contemporary Religious Architecture download pdf
- Author: James Pallister
- Published Date: 20 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
- Language: English
- Book Format: Hardback::240 pages
- ISBN10: 0714868957
- Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
- File size: 22 Mb
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Sacred Spaces : Contemporary Religious Architecture download pdf. Finnish Architecture. Figure 2-2. Juha Leiviskä, Myyrmäki Church, Vantaa, 1984. Photographer 25 not identified. Courtesy of the Museum of Finnish Architecture. Figure 2-3. Niemelä Croft from Konginkangas at the Seurasaari Outdoor Museum 27 in Helsinki. Photograph Pekka Laurila. Courtesy of the Museum of Finnish Architecture. Figure 2-4. A new book examines spiritual architecture around the world. BBC Culture picks awe-inspiring buildings, including a cuboid mosque and a cardboard cathedral. We could say that sacred architecture‘s loss of central importance in Western culture, and the extreme role of religion in Muslim communities both impede the development of design ideas for sacred architecture, making less space for an ongoing, in-depth exploration of its design. Although Hindu worship can be carried out successfully in a contemporary building, Desai believes there is spiritual value in traditional forms: ‘Mandirs should visually convey the fact that they are sacred spaces, and the implementation of a traditional design greatly assists in reinforcing that image. Pilgrimage as a way of discovering the sacred is at the heart of Devin Brophy and Madeline Wentzell’s design, in which a larinth occupies much of the site, leading to a traditional sacred space. Contemporary sacred space at the corner of Georgia and Randolph offers a social setting for discussion of spirituality and philosophy. The Sacred Space and Cultural Studies (SSCS) concentration is one of the few programs in the world where architecture graduate students, faculty, and professionals can reflect, learn, research, and profess the deepest spiritual and cultural roots of place-making. The great challenge of contemporary religious architecture is to conciliate the architect's intentions with the expectations and sensitivity of the community, so that the project is well-accepted and the spatial experience conceived the architect is accomplished, making the religious experience more intense. To design the Bahá'í Temple of South America, architect Siamak Hariri focused on illumination - from the temple's form, which captures the movement of the sun throughout the day, to the Sep 22, 2007 “If modern architecture is meant to be nonreferential, Gothic architecture’s whole purpose is to reference God,” said Mr. Gipson, who is now retired. “This building is a great finger But it’s a mistake to think this means the end of sacred space. What is actually happening is the emergence of new ways of thinking about how people express faith, and the role architecture plays in it. This is happening on two fronts. The first is how congregations that occupy mainline religious buildings are coping with declines in attendance. On top of that, religious architecture typically reflects the traditions and forms of a particular faith and distinguishes itself in some way from the other buildings that surround it, he noted. “The architecture of the sacred must transcend the everyday, in some way,” Crosbie said. The use of light can lead to very diverse feelings: a ray of sunlight calls attention; glare overpowers; the nocturnal sky fascinates, while a dense dark forest arouses fear. Religions have made use of these experiences to convey the mystic aspects of their respective deities — accordingly, TRANSCENDING ARCHITECTURE.Contemporary Views on Sacred Space Edited Julio Bermudez, PhD Published CUA Press (2015) Table of Contents In his awe-inspiring series, Sacred Spaces, Parisian photographer Thibaud Poirier presents the diversity of modernist church architecture around the world. Grundtvigs Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark (Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, 1927) Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan (Kenzo Tange, 1964) Yet what makes a space in nature sacred only begins with its wild beauty or biodiversity, he adds. “Contemporary religious studies scholars would generally say that whether a religion’s sacred space is a built or a natural environment, it’s human activity that consecrates those places and makes them sacred.” Sacred spaces exemplify some of the most exciting and challenging architecture today. Designing Sacred Spaces tells the inside story of seven architecture firms and their approaches to designing churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, monasteries and retreats. " Transcending Architecture is an important and timely contribution to the study of sacred architecture and its relation to the numinous. In a time when religion is part of the world's political and sociocultural discourse it is important to revisit the issues of the relation of the sacred and humane. Sites sacred or spiritual to multiple religions. At times due to the location of a work of architecture or due to changes of power within a region, worshippers of more than one religion share a sacred space. The reuse or altering of a sacred space multiple religions can be either harmonious or controversial.
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