Designing Sacred Spaces

ISBN-13: 9780367028312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str.

Sherin Wing

Opis

Designing Sacred Spaces tells the inside story of seven architecture firms and their approaches to designing churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, monasteries and retreats.

Spis treści

Dedication  Part 1: Introduction  1. Introduction  2. New Terms  3. Architectural History and Historiography  4. Architecture Construction of Identity  Part 2: Churches  5. Arcari + Iovino Architects  6. hMa (Hanrahan Meyers Architects)  7. Kris Yao Artech  8. Makespace Architects  9. OOPEAA (Office for Peripheral Architecture)  Part 3: Reconceptualizing Space  10. Conceptualizing Space  11. Geography and Space  12. Archaeology and Space  Part 4: Monasteries  13. Michael Rotondi Architects  14. Kris Yao Artech  Part 5: The Construction of Religious Spaces  15. Constructing Religious Space  16. Symbols and Space  17. Project Sites  Part 6: Retreats  18. hMa  19. Imbue Design  20. Michael Rotondi Architects  Part 7: Understanding Religions Through Architecture  21. Religious Traditions, an Overview in Architecture  22. Buddhism  23. Christianity  24. Islam  25. Judaism  Part 8: Biographies and Observations  26. Arcari + Iovino Architects, Edward Arcari and Anthony Iovino  27. hMa, Victoria Meyers  28. Imbue Design, Hunter Gunderson, Matthew Swindel and Christopher Talvy  29. Makespace Architects, Shahed Saleem  30. OOPEAA, Anssi Lassila  31. Roto Architects, Michael Rotondi  Acknowledgments  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Sherin Wing received her Ph.D. in the Humanities from UCLA, USA. In addition to being a published scholar, she also writes for several publications including Architecture Magazine, ArchDaily.com, the Huffington Post, and Metropolis Magazine on a wide range of issues surrounding the cultural, economic, and social aspects of architecture.