Water and Sacred Architecture
Editat de Anat Gevaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mai 2023
The volume deliberately offers original material on various unique contextual and design aspects of water and sacred architecture, rather than an attempt to produce a historic chronological analysis on the topic or focusing on a specific geographical region. As such, this unique volume adds a new dimension to the study of sacred architecture. The book’s chapters are compiled by a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It addresses major aspects of water in religious buildings, such as, rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material and place-making, hydro systems, modern practices, environmental considerations, the contribution of water to transforming secular into sacred, and future digital/cyber context of water and sacredness. All chapters are based on original archival studies, historical documents, and field visits to the sites and buildings. These examinations show water as an expression of architectural design, its materiality, and its spiritual values. The book will be of interest to architects, historians, environmentalists, archaeologists, religious scholars, and preservationists.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032415895
ISBN-10: 1032415894
Pagini: 316
Ilustrații: 21 Line drawings, black and white; 152 Halftones, black and white; 173 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032415894
Pagini: 316
Ilustrații: 21 Line drawings, black and white; 152 Halftones, black and white; 173 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
Introduction: Water and Sacred Architecture Part 1: Rituals 1. Beyond Baptism: Incorporating Water as a Primary Symbol in Contemporary Roman Catholic Church Architecture 2. Water and RitualWudu(Ablutions) in Canadian Mosques 3. Chattri and Kund: The Architecture of Kusum Sarovar, Govardhan, India 4. Sacred Water Architecture for Every Jew: Rabbi David Miller and DIY Mikvah in Charleston, South Carolina Part 2: Water as Material Culture and Place Making 5. Architecture, Water, and the Sacred in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace, Greece 6. Roman Waterscapes, Architecture, and Religion: Notions of Sacrality and Sensory Experience 7. Purifying the Stupa: Symbolism of the Lotus Flower in Buddhist Architecture 8. The Sacredness of Water and Place: African and Diasporic Religious Cultural Encounters Part 3: Environmental Impact 9. The ‘Sacred’ Architecture of Anupam Mishra's Water-Culture 10. Sacredness in The Presence and Absence of Water: The Case of Stepwells in Ahmedabad, India 11. Tethering Buddhism to Climate Change: Lessons from the Ladakhi Ice Stupa Part 4: Water Systems 12. Hymn to the Waters: Anāhitā in Ancient Persian Architecture 13. Tower and Temple: Re-sacralizing Water Infrastructure at Balkrishna Doshi’s GSFC Township 14. Geothermal Systems and Religious Ethics: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, and First Unitarian Society of Madison Part 5: Modern Practice 15. Sacredness and Water in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: A reinterpretation of Ancient Traditions 16. Baptistries in Marcel Breuer and Associates’ American Catholic Sacred Spaces 17. Strength in Weakness – Daoist Waters and the Architecture of the Xinjin Zhi Museum Epilogue: The Expression of Water in Virtual Sacred Architecture: The Case of a Virtual Baptism
Notă biografică
Anat Geva, PhD, a registered architect in Israel and Associate Member of the AIA, is Professor Emerita of Architecture in Texas A&M University, and the College of Architecture Outstanding Alumni. She taught design; history/design of sacred architecture; history of building technology; and historic preservation. She published many articles and three books: Frank Lloyd Wright Sacred Architecture: Faith, Form, and Building Technology (Routledge, 2012); Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture (Routledge, 2019); and Israel Architecture as an Experimental Lab for Modern Architecture: 1948-1978: with Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler (Intellect Books, 2020). Geva's forthcoming book The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues (1950s-1960s) is currently in press (Texas A&M University Press). She also has an extensive record of editorial work: being a co-editor of Arris, and founder and co-editor of Preservation Education & Research. She is a recipient of several awards and research grants including the prestigious James Marston Fitch National Award for innovative research in historic preservation.
Descriere
This book examines architectural representations that tie water with the sacred. It addresses aspects such as rituals, pilgrimage, water as a cultural material, hydro systems, modern practices, environmental considerations, the contribution of water to transforming secular into sacred, and digital/cyber context of water and sacredness.