- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Laurence King Publishing (22 Nov 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856693848
- ISBN-13: 978-1856693844
- Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 24 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,087,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This timely book reflects an awakening of interest in religious faiths and the emergence of a 'global exchange of architecture and culture. While Spain's Rafael Moneo has recently completed a cathedral in Los Angeles, Britain's Thomas Heatherwick is designing a Buddhist temple in Japan, John Pawson is working on a Cistercian monastery in the Czech Republic and Richard Meier has completed his Jubilee Church in Rome. It seems, as one Wallpaper[registered] pundit commented, 'religion is getting a redesign' and the architect's faith is as unimportant as his or her nationality. I Looking at ways in which contemporary architects are approaching religious or meditative space, this book focuses on churches, chapels, temples, synagogues and mosques that have been built in the last few years and that represent a late-twentieth/early-twenty-first century aesthetic. These buildings demonstrate how new ideas and developments in urban, domestic and public architecture are being used to inform design that is intended for inspiration, worship or meditation. The text discusses the ways in which architects manipulate light and space and considers the placement of these buildings in their surroundings.
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Phyllis Richardson is a former Research Editor for Architectural Digest magazine in Los Angeles, and is the author of XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings (2001), Contemporary Natural (2002) and the Style City guides to London and Barcelona (2003).
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Architecture is asked to deliver many things to many people -shelter, comfort and perhaps beauty, expanding to more specialized programmatic or formalistic requirements. Read the first page
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