The Religious Imagination

in Modern and
Contemporary
Arch itectu re
AReader

Renata Hejduk and Jim Williamson

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NEW YORK AND LONDON

Contents

List of Illustrations

xi

Foreword

xv

Preface

xvi

Acknowledgments
Permissions

Introduction: The Apocryphal Project of Modern and Contemporary Architecture

XVII

xviii

Renata Hejduk and Jim Williamson

Religion and Myth

10

Luis Barraqan

When the Sacred Journey Ends: Protestant Thought and the Meaning of
Puritanical Modern Architecture

12

Thomas H. Beeby

Modernity

30

Gustavo Benavides

Shiva, luria, Kahn

32

Michael Benedikt

The Architecture of Hope: Daniel libeskind's Jewish Museum

42

Andrew Benjamin

'Art and Society' from 1909

55

Hendrik Petrus Berlage

Revolution and Revelation: luis Barragan's Divergent Modernism

Jose Bernardi

56

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CONTENTS

Notes from Volume Zero: Louis Kahn and the Language of God

64

Joseph Burton

10

Ecclesia

81

Massimo Cacciari

11

The Godless Temple, 'Organon of the Infinite'

82

Peter Carl

12

The Woodland Cemetery: Toward a Spiritual Landscape, Erik Gunnar Asplund

and Sigurd Lewerentz 1915-1961

100

Caroline Constant

13 The Public, the Private, and the Sacred

103

CharIes Correa

14

A Dwelling for Man within the Harmony of the Cosmos

104

Maria Antonietta Crippa

15

Excellence: The Culture of Mies as Seen in His Notes and Books

111

Francesco Dal Co

16

The Sacred and the Modern Artist

122

Mircea Eliade

17

Re: Neoconservative Architecture, Neoconservative Politics: A Mighty Fortress:

Quinlan Terry and the Reformation of Architecture

126

Martin Filler and Quinlan Terry

18

Transcendental Renaissance in the Arts 1890-1920

134

Raymond H. Geselbracht

19

Explorations of Jewish Space 1978-Present

136

David Gissen

20

Spiritual Basis of Creativity

142

Paul Goesch (Tancred)

21

Architecture's Destiny

144

K. Michael Hays

22

The Sweet Juice Bled

148

John Hejduk

23

The Wallpaper
John Hejduk

149

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24 Step into liquid: Rites, Transcendence, and Transgression in the Modern

Construction of the Sodal Sacred
Renata Hejduk

25 J. L M. Lauweriks and K. P. C. de Bazel: Architecture and Theosophy

150

164

Susan R. Henderson

26 The Architectural Metaphor

176

Denis Holher

27 Rudolf Schwarz: Modern Churches in a Modern Culture

178

Richard Kieckhefer

28 Leon Krier's Theology of Traditionalism: An Interview with Peter Eisenman

186

Leon Krier and Peter Eisenman

29 Formal, Informal, and the Jewish Question

194

Sanford Kwinter

30 Cathedral Without Walls: Theosophical Modernism for American Democracy

196

Jonathan Massey

31 Frank L10yd Wright: "The Architect as Preacher"

210

Debra A. Meyers

32 The Task of Architecture

212

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

33 Beauty is the Radiance of Truth

213

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

34 St. Savior Chapel, IIT Campus, Chicago

214

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

35 Alchemical and Mythical Themes in the Poem of the Right Angle 1947-1965

216

Richard A. Moore

36 The Aura of the Sacred: Art, Architecture, and Existential Sacredness

234

Juhani Pallasmaa

37 Abstraction in Modern Architecture: The Gnostic Dimension

242

Alberto Perez-Gornez

38 Eschatology
Colin Rowe

252

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CONTENTS

39

The Dark Side of the Bauhaus

263

Joseph Rykwert

40

The Foundation

269

Rudolf Schwarz

41

Prayer for a House

274

David Shapiro

42

"Mein Weltbild" (My World-Picture), 19 October 1920

276

Bruno Taut (Glas)

43

Nuclear Architecture or Fabulous Architecture or Tragic Architecture or ...

280

Mark C. Taylor

44

Purity

296

Mark C. Taylor

45

Architecture and Theology

322

Quinlan Terry

46

Construction (De)Construction (Re)Construction: Architectural Antinomies

and a (Re)newed Beginning

328

Stanley Tigerman

47

The Ideal of Holy Emptiness

336

The Reverend Paul Tillich

48

Living and Working in Paradise

338

Richard Wesley

49

The Crystal Chain

344

lain Boyd Whyte

50

Cosmopolitan Architectures: Notes on Drawing

358

Jim Williamson

Glossary

372

Index

378