THE RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION IN MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

Description

This anthology collects, substaniates, and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architecture.
The essays written expressly for the anthology take a critical look at the relationship between religion and architecture in the twentieth century, as well as giving a brief look at the pre-history of the modern movement and its relationship to religion and architecture. These are grounded by and help to explicate the reprinted essays that are culled from the last one hundred years.
This is an important introduction to the religious imagination in architectural thought of the last one hundred years, and to the interdisciplinary discourse that examines how different disciplines express abstract concepts such as faith, spirit, God and knowledge. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practising, delving deeper into the meaning of architectural practice.

CONTENTS

• Introduction: The Apocryphal Project of Modern and Contemporary Architecture
• Religion and Myth from the Official Address, 1980 Pritzker Prize for Architecture
• When the Sacred Journey Ends: Protestant Thought and Meaning of Puritanical Modern Architecture
• Excerpt from Modernity
• Shiva, Luria, Khan
• The Architecture of Hope: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum
• Excerpt from Kunst en Maatschappy
• Revolution and Revelation: Luis Barragan’s Divergent Modernism
• Notes from Volume Zero: Louis Kahn and the Language of God
• Ecclesia
• The Goddess Temple, Organon of the Infinite
• Excerpts from The Woodland Cemetry: Toward a Spiritual Lanscape, Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz 1915-1961
• Excerpt from The Public, The Private and the Sacred
• A Dwelling for Man within the Harmony of the Cosmos
• Excerpt from Excellence: the Culture of Mies as Seen in his Notes and Books
• Excerpt from The Sacred and the Modern Artist
• Interview: A Mighty Fortress: Quinlan Terry and the Reformation of Architecture
• Excerpts from Transcendental Renaissance in the Arts: 1980-1920
• Explorations of Jewish Space: 1978-present
• Spiritual Basis of Creativity
• Excerpt from Architecture’s Destiny from Sanctuaries: The last Works of John Hejduk
• Wallpaper and the Sweet Juice Bled
• Step into Liquid: Rites, Transcendence, and Transgression in the Modern Construction of Sacred Space
• JLM Lauweriks and KPC de Bazel: Architecture and Theosophy
• Excerpt from The Architectural Metaphor
• Excerpt from Rudolf Scwarz: Modern Churches in Modern Culture
• Interview: Leon Krier’s Theology of Traditionalism
• Formal, Informal and The Jewish Question
• Claude Bragdon and American Theosophy
• Excerpt from Frank Lloyd Wright: the Architect as Preacher
• The Chapel of the Savior at IIT
• Excerpt from Mies van der Rohe: An Appreciation on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday
• Excerpt from a Speech 1938
• Alchemical Themes in the Poem of the Right Angle
• The Aura of the Sacred: Art, Architecture, and Existential Sacredness
• Abstraction in Modern Architecture: The Gnostic Dimension
• Eschatology
• The Dark Side of Bauhaus
• The Foundation from The Church Incarnate: The Sacred Function of Christian Architecture
• Prayer for a House
• Excerpt from Mein Weltbild
• Nuclear Architecture or Fabulous Architecture, or Tragic Architecture or…
• Purity
• Architecture and Theology
• Construction (De)Construction (Re)Construction: Architectural Antinomies and a (Re)newed Beginning
• Excerpt from The Ideal of Holy Emptiness
• Excerpt from the Polarities of Paradise in the Works of Frank Lloyd Wright
• The Crystal Chain Letters
• Cosmopolitan Architectures: Notes on Drawing Glossary of Terms

405 pages, color & b&w ills / 19 x 25,5 cm / English