Façades of Faith: Reading Church Architecture
Vasileios Marinis on Allen Doig Church histories are rarely concerned with ecclesiastical buildings. Those of us who peruse such books have certainly noticed
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Where Does God Dwell? Form Without Faith in Church Arcitecture
Kristi W. Bain Reviews William Whyte’s Unlocking the Church What makes a church, a church? William Whyte seeks to answer this question in his
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Buddhist Spaces: Beyond Secularity
Eric Huntington Reviews Thomas McDaniel’s Architects of Buddhist Leisure Justin Thomas McDaniel’s new book, Architects of Buddhist Leisure, seeks to demolish conceptual barriers
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Rethinking Sacred Space
Laura Moffatt on Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Sheherazade Guidici’s Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space I’m becoming increasingly convinced that
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Urban Afterlives – by Dana Robinson
Dana Robinson on Hendrik W. Dey’s Afterlife of the Roman City The fall of Rome was an urban affair. Alaric’s sack of the
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Architecture, Ascetics, and Agency – By Katherine Kasdorf
Katherine Kasdorf on Tamara Sears’s Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings In a village in central India, two medieval buildings stand side by side.
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Pavement, Piety, and Prophetic Art – By Karla Cavarra Britton
Karla Cavarra Britton on Flora Samuel and Inge Linder-Gaillard’s Sacred Concrete Le Corbusier, the Franco-Swiss architect, artist, graphic designer, writer, polemicist and mystic,
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Learning to Read the Victorian Church – By David Frazer Lewis
David Frazer Lewis on Michael Hall’s George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America What do Victorian churches mean?
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Midcentury British Catholic Church Architecture: Form, Function, and Context – By Victoria M. Young
Victoria M. Young on Robert Proctor’s Building the Modern Church In the decades after World War II, communities worldwide returned to worship as
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Anglican Gothic in the British Empire – By Zirwat Chowdhury
Zirwat Chowdhury on G.A. Bremner’s Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870 Following a visit to Stirling Castle,
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