Main entry:

Bess, Philip, 1952-

Title & Author:

Till we have built Jerusalem : architecture, urbanism, and the sacred / Philip Bess.

Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2006.

Description:

xxv, 309 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 23 cm.

Series:

Religion and contemporary culture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Virtuous reality : Aristotle, critical realism, and the reconstruction of architectural and urban theory -- 2. Democracy's private places -- 3. Design and happiness -- 4. The architectural community and the polls : thinking about ends, premises, and architectural education -- 5. Making sacred : the phenomenology of matter and spirit in architecture and the city -- 6. Beyond irony : biblical religion and architectural renewal -- 7. A Dutch master and the good life -- 8. Design matters : the city and the church -- 9. Sacramental sign, neighborhood center : a proposal for Catholic churches in the twenty-first century -- 10. Religion and new urbanism -- 11. The polis and natural law : the moral authority of the urban transect -- 12. New urbanism and politics : a conservative case for urbanism -- 13. After heroes : Nietzsche or Chesterton? -- 14. Architecture and otherness -- 15. Peter Eisenman and the architecture of the therapeutic -- 16. St. Colin Rowe and the architecture theory wars -- 17. The rhetorician of urbanism -- 18. The old urbanism -- Postscript : in the neighborhood -- App. A. The new urbanism : from Aristotle and God to baseball -- App. B. The case for Fenway Park.

Summary:

"Urban history ever since--from England's early-nineteenth-century hygiene laws to mid-twentieth-century modernist architecture and planning to today's New Urbanism--has consisted of efforts to ameliorate the consequences of the industrial city by either embracing or challenging the idealization of nature that has followed it. Architect Philip Bess's Till We Have Built Jerusalem puts forth fresh arguments for traditional architecture and urbanism, their relationship to human flourishing, and the kind of culture required to create and sustain traditional towns and city neighborhoods. Bess not only dissects the questionable intellectual assumptions of contemporary architecture, he also shows how the individualist ethos of modern societies finds physical expression in contemporary suburban sprawl, making traditional urbanism difficult to sustain. He concludes by considering the role of both the natural law tradition and communal religion in providing intellectual and spiritual depth to contemporary attempts to build new--and revive existing--traditional towns and cities, attempts that, at their best, help fulfill our natural human desires for order, beauty, and community."--Publisher's website.

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ISBN:

1932236961
9781932236965
193223697X
9781932236972

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
Spirituality in architecture.
City planning.
Villes.
Architecture et société.
Spiritualité en architecture.
cities.

Added entries:

Religion and contemporary culture series (Wilmington, Del.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253919
Call No.: BIB 183734
Status: Available