Details

Subject(s)

• Religious architecture [Browse]
• Sacred space [Browse]
• Religious architecture—Designs and plans [Browse]

Related name

• Architectural Association (Great Britain). Diploma 14. [Browse]

Editor

• Aureli, Pier Vittorio [Browse]
• Giudici, Maria Shéhérazade [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Architectural drawings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• architectural drawings (visual works) [Browse]

Series

AA agendas [More in this series]

Summary note

"The idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in recent architecture, a neglect even more pronounced in terms of debates about the city.The texts and projects in this book aim to redress this oversight, and re-open a contemporary understanding of its relevance. The book itself is the result of a year-long investigation developed in the AA's Diploma Unit 14. It consists of design proposals that range from a mult-ifaith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian, China; from a Jesuit monastery in Detroit to a women's Islamic centre in Paris. The book is complemented by essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria Shéhérazade Giudici and Hamed Khosravi." -- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Preface / Brett Steele
• Introduction / Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici
• Rituals and walls: on the architecture of sacred space / Pier Vittorio Aureli
• Off the script: the architecture of the synagogue / Maria Shéhérazade Giudici
• Inhabitable walls: the genealogy of Islamic sacred space / Hamed Khosravi
• Stone faces and transparent veils: the woman's veil as a spatial construct between Islam and modernity / Hessa Al-Bader ; Islamic Women's Centre in Paris
• Ascetic images: subjectivity and abstraction in sacred imagery after the reformation / Graham Stephen Ives Baldwin ; School in Strasbourg
• Religious sovereignty and the classical language of architect / Matthew Critchley ; Multifaith Hall in London
• City of God: on the religious significance of the grid in North America / Alessandro Bava ; Jesuit Monastery in Detroit
• Sacred space and the baroque: liturgy, pilgrimage and the urban stage / Philip Turner ; Pilgrims' accommodation in Rome
• Monastery and city: the controversial relationship between state and Orthodox Church in Nicosia / Antonis Romao Papamichael
• Monastic complexes in Nicosia
• Displacement of worship: the transformation of Muslim sacred space / Oleg Bilenchuk ; Friday mosques in Moscow
• Haptic space: old Cairo's citadel and the architecture of the Coptic Church / Basmah Kaki ; Completion of the Coptic Cairo Citadel
• Framed infinity: the concept of Byzantine urban form / Harikleia Karamali-Zeri ; Greek Orthodox Church and Square in Istanbul
• Power and the sacred: the Confucian origins of Chinese urban space / Jing Qiao ; Thirteen temples in Xian
• Parthenon controversies: the neutralisation of the Athenian Acropolis as a sacred space / Dorette Panagiotopoulou ; Reconstruction of a church and mosque inside the Parthenon
• Lost centrality: the urban appearance of churches and secularisation in nineteenth-century London / Christopher C. Bisset ; Sacred gardens in London
• The sacred in the age of reason: rituals, spaces, religion and the French Revolution / Octave Perrault ; Monument to peoplehood in Paris.

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Other title(s)

Architecture of sacred space

ISBN

• 9781907896637 ((pbk.))
• 1907896635 ((pbk.))

OCLC

964907969

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