Religious Buildings Books

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1. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture: Faith, Form and Building Technology

   By Anat Geva

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-77508-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: a reader

   Edited by Renata Hejduk, Jim Williamson

   This anthology collects, substaniates, and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architecture. The essays written expressly for the anthology take a critical look at the relationship between religion and architecture in the twentieth...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-78081-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture

   By Thomas Barrie

   The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an ‘in-between’ place. Establishing the...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-77964-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Nothingness: Tadao Ando's Christian Sacred Space

   By Jin Baek

   Based round an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando’s Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance of the buildings of one the world’s leading contemporary architects. Specifically, this book situates...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-47854-0 | Paperback (Routledge)