Constructing the ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture / Karla Cavarra Britton, editor.
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Yale School of Architecture : Distributed by Yale University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : the case for sacred architecture / Karla Cavarra Britton
- The earth, the temple and today / Vincent Scully
- Untimely meditations on the need for sacred architecture / Kartsten Harries
- Architecture, memory and the sacred / Miroslav Volf
- Revealing concealment / Mark C. Taylor
- Constructing the immaterial in spaces large and small / Emilie M. Townes
- Rudolf Schwarz and Mies van der Rohe : the form of the spirit / Thomas H. Beeby
- The secular spirituality of Tadao Ando / Kenneth Frampton
- Temples of light / Diana Eck
- Visionaries or lunatics? : architects of sacred space, even in outer space / Jaime Lara
- The tribe versus the city-state : a conundrum for the Jewish project / Stanley Tigerman
- Jubilee Church (Dio Padre misericordioso), Rome / Richard Meier
- Architecture as a vehicle for religious experience : the Los Angeles Cathedral / Rafael Moneo
- Faith and form : contemporary space for worship and pilgrimage / Fariborz Sahba
- Theistic--polytheistic--non-theistic / Steven Holl (with David Van der Leer)
- The architecture of memory : seeking the sacred / Moshe Safdie
- Is there a religious space in the twenty-first century? / Peter Eisenman
- The contemporary mosque / Zaha Hadid
- Epilogue : on the relevance of sacred architecture today / Paul Goldberger.