Modern Architecture and the Sacred : Religious Legacies and Spiritual Renewal
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part 1: Beginnings and transformations of the modern sacred -- Chapter 1: Architecture and the question of 'the' sacred -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Romantic Kunstre...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA,
2020
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| Schlagworte: | Architecture and religion Architecture, Modern Religious architecture Sacred space Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part 1: Beginnings and transformations of the modern sacred -- Chapter 1: Architecture and the question of 'the' sacred -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Romantic Kunstreligion and the search for the sacred in modern architecture: From Schinkel's Altes Museum as 'aesthetic church' to Zumthor's Bruder Klaus Field Chapel as Gesamtkunstwerk and 'heavenly cave' -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Ordinary as the extraordinary: Modern sacred architecture in Germany, the United States and Japan -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Città dei Morti: Alvar Aalto's funerary architecture -- Ancient typologies and topographies -- Walled enclosures -- Ritual and representation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Archival sources -- Notes -- Part 2: Buildings for modern worship -- Chapter 5: Light, form and formación: Daylighting, church building and the work of the Valparaíso School -- Renewing architectural education: The first two decades at Valparaíso -- The 1953 Los Pajaritos chapel project: A 'battle for the cube of light' -- Reconstruction of the church of Corral, 1961 -- The Open City's co-operative life, 1971-present -- The Open City oratory -- The travesías, 1984-present -- Sacred architecture, light and formación/Bildung -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Reading, storing and parading the book: Between tradition and modernity in the synagogue -- Introduction -- Synagogue characteristics -- Varieties of modern Judaism, and their respective synagogues -- The nineteenth century: Upper Berkeley Street and South Hackney -- The twentieth century: South Hampstead United and Belsize Square (Reform) -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Compacting civic and sacred: Goodhue's University of Chicago Chapel and the modern metropolis -- Developing a site plan. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781350098718 135009871X 9781350098664 1350098663 |