Constructing the Ineffable

Constructing the Ineffable
Author: Karla Britton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture and society
ISBN: 9780300170375

Throughout the history of the built environment there has been no more significant endeavor than the construction of houses of worship, which were once the focal point around which civilizations and city-states developed. This book is the first to examine this topic across continents and from the perspective of multiple faiths. It addresses how sacred buildings are viewed in the context of contemporary architecture and religious practice.

Re-Humanizing Architecture

Re-Humanizing Architecture
Author: Ákos Moravánszky
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035608113

After the Second World War, a divided Europe was much affected by a period of reconstruction. This was influenced by the different political systems – in the socialist East and in the capitalist West, the focus was on cohesion in society and its cultural and architectural expression. In parallel to the rapidly progressing industrialization of the building industry, debates on the humanization of the built environment were led on both sides with great intensity. The volume shows how, on the back of existentialism, new monumentality, and socialist realism, quite similar concepts and strategies were developed in order to find answers to questions relating to adequate structures for new forms of community and identity.

Transcending Architecture

Transcending Architecture
Author: Julio Bermudez
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0813226791

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Constructing Cultures

Constructing Cultures
Author: Susan Bassnett
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781853593529

This collection brings together two leading figures in the discipline of translation studies. The essays cover a range of fields, and combine theory with practical case studies involving the translation of literary texts.

Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts

Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts
Author: Jeremy Begbie
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334056942

How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God? It is widely believed that there is something transcendent about the arts, that they can awaken a profound sense of awe, wonder, and mystery, of something “beyond” this world. Many argue that this opens up fruitful opportunities for conversation with those who may have no use for conventional forms of Christianity. Jeremy Begbie—a leading voice on theology and the arts—in this book employs a biblical, trinitarian imagination to show how Christian involvement in the arts can (and should) be shaped by a vision of God’s transcendence revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. After critiquing some current writing on the subject, he goes on to offer rich resources to help readers engage constructively with the contemporary cultural moment even as they bear witness to the otherness and uncontainability of the triune God of love.

Effing the Ineffable

Effing the Ineffable
Author: Wesley J. Wildman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438471254

In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that, for most people, is fraught with special spiritual significance: dreaming, suffering, creating, slipping, balancing, eclipsing, loneliness, intensity, and bliss. These moments can inspire religious questioning and commitment, and, in extreme situations, drive us in search of ways to express what matters most to us. Drawing upon American pragmatist, Anglo-American analytic, and Continental traditions of philosophical theology, Wildman shows how, through direct description, religious symbolism, and phenomenological experience, the language games of religion become a means to attempt, and, in some sense, to accomplish this task.

Time and Transformation in Architecture

Time and Transformation in Architecture
Author: Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004376798

Time and Transformation in Architecture, edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, approaches architecture and the built environment from an interdisciplinary point of view by emphasizing in its theoretical discussions and empirical analysis the dimensions of time, temporality, and transformation—and their relation to human experiences, behavior, and practices. The volume consists of seven chapters that explore the following questions: How do architectural ideas, ideals, and meanings emerge, develop, and transform? How is architecture manifested in relation to time, time-space, and the social dimensions it entails and produces? The volume provides both multifaceted theoretical discussions on time and temporality in architecture and empirical case studies around the globe in which these theories and conceptualizations are tested and explored. Contributors are Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa, André van Graan, June Jordaan, Joongsub Kim, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana, Sanja Rodeš and Smaranda Spânu.

Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality

Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality
Author: Thomas Barrie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317179021

Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship. The seventeen chapters provide a diverse range of perspectives, grouped according to topical themes: Being in the World; Sacred, Secular, and the Contemporary Condition; Symbolic Engagements; Sacred Landscapes; and Spirituality and the Designed Environment. Even though the authors’ approach the subject from a range of disciplines and theoretical positions, all share interests in the need to rediscover, redefine, or reclaim the sacred in everyday experience, scholarly analysis, and design.

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier
Author: Roberto Gargiani
Publisher: Epfl Press
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780415681711

This groundbreaking new perspective on Le Corbusier is based on exhaustive archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It is innovative in showing the role of materials and construction techniques in the architecture of Le Corbusier and the book also delves into the project management and the construction of several buildings in the period 1940 – 1965. Each worksite, from the Unité d'Habitation (Housing Unit) in Marseille to the city of Chandigarh, and the Tokyo museum, the Carpenter Center in Cambridge and the Unité d'Habitation in Berlin, is analyzed in detail.