Rituals and walls : the architecture of sacred space / edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici ; Research by AA Diploma Unit 14.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aureli, Pier Vittorio, editor.

Giudici, Maria Shéhérazade, editor.

Architectural Association (Great Britain). Diploma 14.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious architecture.

Sacred space.

Religious architecture--Designs and plans.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Architecture of sacred space

Place of Publication:

London : Architectural Association, [2016]

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

"Research by AA Diploma Unit 14."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781907896637

1907896635

OCLC:

964907969