How may still we build sacred areas, the locations the place we worship? Transcending Architecture considers the mysterious, profound, and genuine energy of designed environments to handle the non secular measurement of our humanity. through incorporating views from inside of and with out structure, the publication deals a large, severe, and nuanced realizing of the lived dating among the outfitted and the numinous worlds.
Far from warding off the charged problems with subjectivity, tradition and intangibility, the ebook examines phenomenological, symbolic and designerly ways that the holy will get mounted and skilled via structures, landscapes, and concrete kinds, and never simply in institutionally outlined non secular or sacred locations. Acknowledging that no person voice can exhaust the subject, Transcending Architecture brings jointly a stellar workforce of students and practitioners to percentage their insights: architect Juhani Pallasmaa and thinker Karsten Harries, comparative faith pupil Lindsay Jones and architectural theoretician Karla Britton, sacred structure researcher Thomas Barrie and theologian Kevin Seasoltz, panorama architect Rebecca Krinke and religion & shape journal editor Michael Crosbie, are one of the illustrious contributors.
The result's the main direct, transparent, and sophisticated scholarly textual content exclusively eager about the transcendental size of structure to be had. This e-book hence presents, on one hand, knowing, aid, and development to an architectural self-discipline that typically avoids its ineffable measurement and, nonetheless, an important dose of aspect and fact to fields corresponding to theological aesthetics, fabric anthropology, or philosophical phenomenology that too frequently fall trapped into unproductive generalizations and over-intellectualizations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julio Bermudez is an affiliate professor within the tuition of structure and making plans, The Catholic college of America.
"Transcending Architecture is a vital and well timed contribution to the examine of sacred structure and its relation to the numinous. In a time while faith is a part of the world’s political and sociocultural discourse it is very important revisit the problems of the relation of the sacred and humane. the importance of this quantity is in its contribution to the exam of the way the actual footprint of sacred areas brings the human in the direction of the divine throughout religion, tradition, and time." --Anat Geva, affiliate professor of structure at Texas A&M college
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16 Turrell’s light works are based on the experiential qualities of light and the properties of our perceptual mechanism, but they also give rise to spatial experiences that reorient our judgment of figure and ground, near and far, horizon and gravity. These works turn light into a substance that has a sense of other-worldly mystery. In some of his works, Turrell also concretizes the age of light. We tend to think of light as a phenomenon of the present tense, in fact, the very definition of nowness.
The paintings of Piero della Francesca, for instance, silence all sound; the events of these paintings take place as if carved into the solid matter of silence. ”23 The greatest of modern and contemporary paintings are also impressive spaces of peace and calm. The subject matter of Giorgio Morandi’s still-life paintings is eternal immobility and tranquility. These minute paintings of a few bottles and glasses on a tabletop are all meditations on the enigma of the verb “to be”—why is it that things and phenomena exist rather than not.
Rebecca Krinke brings attention to the healing, contemplative, and ethically awakening effects of experiencing a transcending nature. For landscape architect and artist Krinke, many of our most intractable problems come from being disconnected from our natural world. Grounded on this principle, she presents several provocative examples of how to bring us back into balance, focusing on the most dangerous symptom of today’s unhealthy state: stress. Her four case studies properly transcend cataloguing: are they art installations, research projects, landscape architectural designs, psychosocial happenings, or political activism?