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Transcending Architecture: Edited by Julio Bermudez, PHD

This document provides an overview and table of contents for the book "Transcending Architecture. Contemporary Views on Sacred Space" edited by Julio Bermudez. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from various disciplines to share insights on how architecture can transcend ordinary functions and move occupants from the profane to the sacred. It examines how the holy can be conveyed through buildings, landscapes, and urban forms in both religious and secular spaces. The goal is that readers will find opportunities for intellectual and spiritual growth by considering how architecture can provide a respite from daily life and frame human existence within larger spiritual matters.

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Transcending Architecture: Edited by Julio Bermudez, PHD

This document provides an overview and table of contents for the book "Transcending Architecture. Contemporary Views on Sacred Space" edited by Julio Bermudez. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from various disciplines to share insights on how architecture can transcend ordinary functions and move occupants from the profane to the sacred. It examines how the holy can be conveyed through buildings, landscapes, and urban forms in both religious and secular spaces. The goal is that readers will find opportunities for intellectual and spiritual growth by considering how architecture can provide a respite from daily life and frame human existence within larger spiritual matters.

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TRANSCENDING ARCHITECTURE.

Contemporary Views on Sacred Space

Edited by Julio Bermudez, PhD


Published by CUA Press (2015)

Architecture is called to do a lot more than to guarantee the public health, safety and welfare of building
users. In fact, the promise of architecture begins fulfillment when such expectations have been met and
transcended. At its highest, architecture has the ability to turn geometric proportions into shivers, stone
into tears, rituals into revelation, light into grace, space into contemplation, and time into divine presence.
A transcending architecture disappears in the very act of delivering us into the awesome and timeless
nonspace of the holy. Louis Kahn called it the ʻimmeasurableʼ, Le Corbusier the ʻineffableʼ, and Rudolf
Otto the ʻnuminousʼ.

In an age obsessed with speed, consumerism, technology, immediacy, and quantity, an architecture that
transcends constitutes a radical and risky act of love and compassion born out of a spiritual and cultural
awakening. By providing us with a respite, such environments afford us the rare opportunity to re-discover
our bearings and, in so doing, frame our existential condition within the larger matters of life and the
divine. This book thus considers the aesthetics and ethics that move us from the ordinary to the
extraordinary, from the profane to the sacred. Far from avoiding the charged issues of subjectivity, culture
and intangibility, it examines the phenomenological, symbolic, and designerly ways in which the holy gets
fixed and transmitted through buildings, landscapes, and urban forms, and not just in institutionally
defined “religious” or “sacred” places.

Acknowledging that no individual voice or discipline can exhaust the topic, “Transcending Architecture”
brings together a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from within and without architecture to share
their insights. The result is the most direct, clear, and subtle scholarly text solely focused on the
transcendental dimension of architecture available. The ultimate goal is that, by engaging such a
provocative and timely topic, readers will find ample opportunities for intellectual, spiritual, and
professional growth. For more information, visit: http://www.sacred-space.net/transcending_architecture/
For more on the editor, visit: http://faculty.cua.edu/bermudez/

Photo credit: Between Cathedrals, Cadiz (2009), project by architect Alberto Campo Baeza
TRANSCENDING ARCHITECTURE . Contemporary Views on Sacred Space
Edited by Julio Bermudez, PhD Published by CUA Press (2015)

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations

Foreword | Randall Ott

Acknowledgements

Introduction | Julio Bermudez

Part I: Disciplinary Perspectives


Light, Silence and Spirituality in Architecture and Art | Juhani Pallasmaa

The Domestic and the Numinous in Sacred Architecture | Thomas Barrie

Nature, Healing and the Numinous | Rebecca Krinke

From Bioregional To Reverential Urbanism | Maged Senbel

The Risk of the Ineffable | Karla Cavarra Britton

Le Corbusier at the Parthenon | Julio Bermudez

Part II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives


The Christian Church Building | Kevin Seasoltz

Ecclesial Edifice and Image in a Postmodern Age | Mark E. Wedig


Spirituality, Social Justice, and the Built Environment | Michael Sheridan

Ritual, Belief, and Meaning in the Production of Sacred Space | Sue Ann Taylor

Architectural Catalysts to Contemplation: | Lindsay Jones

Transcending Aesthetics | Karsten Harries

Part III: Response From Architectural Practice


Calling Forth The Numinous in Architecture | Michael Crosbie

Elemental Simplicity | Suzane Reatig

Transcendence, Where Hast Thou Gone? | Duncan Stroik

Architectural Quests into the Numinous | Travis Price

Reaching for the Numinous | Richard Vosko

Exploring Transcendence | Thomas Walton

Appendix
Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

For more information, on the book visit: http://www.sacred-space.net/transcending_architecture/


For more information on the editor Julio Bermudez, visit: http://faculty.cua.edu/bermudez/ or
https://cua.academia.edu/JulioBermudez

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