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The Sacred Architecture of Josep Lluís Sert

Religions
An unknown aspect of Josep Lluís Sert (Barcelona, 1902–1983) is his deep engagement with Christian spirituality, particularly following his American exile.
Iñigo Ugalde-Blázquez, Ricardo Gómez-Val, Cinta Lluis-Teruel, Pilar Moran-García   +3 more
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Portuguese Landscapes: Symbols and Sacred Architecture

Cidades, Comunidades e Território
The interest in observing these places stems from the desire to construct an imaginary realm where one can dwell with the gaze. Rosario Assunto, in a brief text clarifying the concepts of territory, environment, and landscape (Assunto, 1980), states that landscape is the form through which humans have organized the raw matter of the territory into an ...
Sebastiano Raimondo
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SACRED ARCHITECTURE: BETWEEN ART AND REALITY

Sacrum et Decorum, 2009
Analysis of tasks of designing contemporary sacred architecture in view of the author’s own designing experience in the field encourages an attempt at a synthetic presentation of a number of problems.
Andrzej Białkiewicz
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The Holy Light of Cyberspace: Spiritual Experience in a Virtual Church

Religions, 2022
Digital technology became a substantial component of daily life activities where people grew less dependent on the constraints of the physical world.
Nesrine Mansour
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From Religious to Sacred Architecture, Pedagogy as Ritual

In_Bo, 2022
in_bo vol. 13 no. 17 focuses on one of its main themes of interest – the sacred – and investigates it according to the relationship between sacred architecture and design pedagogy in contemporary schools of architecture.
Andrea Conti, Luigi Bartolomei
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Fullness and Emptiness

Actas de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea, 2021
This paper aims to analyze prominent examples of contemporary Christian architecture in the Far East, and the influence of religious and architectural concepts of sacred architecture of the Far East on contemporary Christian architecture built there ...
Zorana Sokol-Gojnik, Igor Gojnik
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Between mysticism and industry: Breuer, the Benedictines and a binder [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2022
In much of the recent literature covering the interaction between religion and aesthetic modernity, modern ‘sacred’ architecture has been understood as an initiative to safeguard an autonomous, separate notion of ‘sacred space’ against the reifying ...
Samuel O’Connor Perks
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Listening in Sacred Spaces: The Sanctuary of Poseidonia and Selinunte’s Main Urban Sanctuary

Open Archaeology, 2023
The aim of this work is to analyse recent studies which have raised new hypotheses concerning aural architecture as an emerging trend in humanities research, with a particular focus on the intersection of sacred space, rituals, and sound in the past ...
Bellia Angela
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Adaptation of places of worship to secular functions with the use of narrative method as a tool to preserve religious heritage [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2022
Sacral objects are an important part of Europe’s religious heritage. For centuries, temples have constituted a key element in the urban morphology; they fit into the urban fabric of European cities and are permanently embedded there.
Wierzbicka, Anna Maria, Arno, Maria
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Sacredness of nature and interiority of forms. Contemporary interpretations of the chapel in the woods

Festival dell'Architettura Magazine, 2022
Since ancient times, sacred – the unknown and incorporeal otherness with which man tries to establish an intimate comparison – has been felt in places with a strong naturalistic meaning where, usually, the predisposition of the soul to interiority ...
Francesca Addario
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