Title & Author:

Theology in built environments : exploring religion, architecture, and design / Sigurd Bergmann, editor.

Publication:

New Brunswick (U.S.A.) ; London (U.K.) : Transaction Publishers, ©2009.

Description:

314 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
God's here and now in built environments : introductory remarks on architecture as theology / Sigurd Bergmann -- Artistic generosity, humility and expression : architecture as lived metaphor, collaboration, faith and compassion / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Theology, aesthetics, and the Gothic space : does scholastic theology have anything to do with the Gothic? / Oleg Bychkov -- Trends in contemporary sacred architecture / Michael J. Crosbie -- "Symbolkirchen" : as bridges or boundary stones in a merging Europe? / Wolfgang Grünberg and Anna Körs -- The conversion of St. Maximin in Trier / Annette Homann -- Spatiality, practice and meaning : the existential ambiguity of urban chapels / Peter Nynäs -- A spiritual city : urban vision and the Christian tradition / Philip Sheldrake -- The way of Christ, the way of Dao : artefacts at the crossroads of Western and Asian religions / Grete Refsum -- Spatial design with glass / Theo Sundermeier -- Transfiguring reality : surfaces, signs and metamorphoses in Johannes Schreiter's windows in the Grunewald church / Sigurd Bergmann -- Architecture for Christian worship : the emerging United States experience / Richard S. Vosko -- Regarding the relation between church and architecture / Horst Schwebel -- Less is more? : the modernist headquarters of the Norwegian Lutheran Home Mission Society (1935) : an inspiration for aesthetic/theological reflection / Per Anders Aas -- Can churches fly? : the liturgy of architecture : an aesthetic and theological perspective / Sigurd Bergmann.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Can space set theology free? This is a challenging question, one that the editor hopes can be answered, at least in part, in this volume. The book also shows clearly how different modes of design in sacred spaces capture a sense of the religious.

ISBN:

9781412810180 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1412810183 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781412845809 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1412845807 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and religion.
Aesthetics Religious aspects.
Architecture et religion.
Esthétique Aspect religieux.
Sakralbau
Theologie
Arkitekturestetik religiösa aspekter.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Essays.

Added entries:

Bergmann, Sigurd, 1956-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266525
Call No.: BIB 198442
Status: Available