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Mysticism and Pragmatism in Modern Religious Architecture [PDF]

Anglican Theological Review, 2017
Kahn at Penn: Transformative Teacher of Architecture. By James Williamson. New York: Routledge, 2015. xv + 204 pp. $163.00 (cloth); $52.95 (paper).Temples for a Modern God: Religious Architecture in Postwar America. By Jay M. Price. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xi + 256 pp. $82.00 (cloth).Prayer literally takes place.
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Review: Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture by Joseph Siry; Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue: Architecture and Community by Walter C. Leedy Jr. and Sara Jane Pearman

, 2014
Joseph Siry Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 736 pp., 10 color and 295 b/w illus. $70 (cloth), ISBN 9780226761404 Walter C. Leedy Jr.
D. Gyure
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The reflections of the concept of beauty in the religious architecture: The example of the Ottoman period between the 13 th and 17 th centuries

, 2012
Based on the assumption that religious concepts affect the architecture and therefore, that the concepts have their own inherent languages, this study seeks to find the reflections of the concept of beauty in the religious architecture.
R. Akat, Birguuml, L. ccedil, Akiroğlu, I. Bayer   +4 more
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Women as Patrons of Religious Architecture in Ayyubid Damascus

Muqarnas, 1993
L'auteur aborde la question de la fondation et du patronnage par des femmes d'edifices religieux islamiques, phenomene dont les temoignages architecturaux (institutions charitables, madrasas, hospices Sufi) sont les plus nombreux a Damas, entre 1174 et 1260 (dynastie Ayyoubide).
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Temples for a Modern God: Religious Architecture in Postwar America

, 2012
Introduction Chapter 1: The Search for a Better Church Building Chapter 2: The Postwar House of Worship Chapter 3: Postwar Religious Building: A Negotiated Chapter 4: Making a Modern Church Still Look Like a Church Chapter 5: "Let's Stop Building ...
J. Price
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Nanban Religious Architecture. A Forgotten Heritage

2019
This chapter provides a general introduction to Christian architecture in Japan during the so-called "Nanban Century" or "Christian Century" (1543-1640). The prayer spaces established by missionaries in Japan consisted in a first phase of the use of rooms inside private houses or abandoned temples adapted for the purpose; a second short-lived phase saw
Scaroni, Federico, Vieira Amaro, Bébio
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Church architecture and religious art

2001
The architecture of two great ecclesiastical monuments of western Christendom can be seen as exemplifying the historicising trend in nineteenth-century art. The first, the Basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome, rebuilt from the 1830s onwards, is an expensively confident expression of the last fling of neo-Classicism.
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Mesopotamian Religious Architecture: Alexander through the Parthians

, 1988
This book is a comprehensive treatment of the survival and reworking of earlier forms of Mesopotamian religious architecture in the periods of foreign occupation of the Near East, first by Greeks, who established the Seleucid kingdoms after the conquests
S. Downey
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The orientation of medieval Islamic religious architecture and cities

Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1995
L'orientation sacree des bâtiments islamiques religieux du Moyen Age intrigue les historiens ...
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Religious Art and Architecture in 18th-Century Europe

2021
The 18th century was an era of transition for the arts and religion. Monarchs continued to commission religious art and architecture for a variety of reasons, including fulfillment of vows, expressions of faith and piety, and celebrations of dynastic power. The period saw simultaneous trends toward sumptuous decoration and sober display, as well as the
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