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EB 11- Sacred Architecture
En Blanco 11. Sacred Architecture explores one of the most significant fields in the history of architecture: the construction of spaces devoted to spirituality. Through a selection of contemporary projects and critical essays, the issue reflects on how present-day architecture responds to the challenge of designing places of contemplation and meaning within contemporary cultural contexts.
Religious architecture has historically functioned as a field of experimentation in which new spatial and constructive ideas have been developed. In this issue, a number of projects demonstrate how contemporary architects explore the potential of exposed concrete, light, and materiality to create atmospheres capable of intensifying the experience of sacred space. The relationship between structure, void, and light thus becomes a key instrument for shaping places of silence and reflection.
Alongside the architectural projects, several essays examine the role of sacred architecture in contemporary culture and its ability to reinterpret liturgical and symbolic traditions. The result is a publication that offers a broad perspective on contemporary religious architecture, understood as a field in which materiality, space, and meaning are closely intertwined.
- Collection
- En Blanco
- Number
- 11
- Language
- Spanish/ English
- Size
- 23 x 28 cm
- Format
- Soft Cover
- Page number
- 114
Places of contemporary sacred architecture: Light media versus time of meditation
Andrés Martínez Medina
The Church of St. Bernadette of Nevers. Expressive conclusion or oblique beginning?
Diego Fullaondo Buigas de Dalmau
Places of scared architecture: The liturgical assembly as a functional reference
Juan María Moreno Seguí
Industrial technology and the sacred space. Church of Baranzate 1957
Guillermo Mocholí Ferrándiz, Bartolomé Serra Soriano, Pedro Verdejo Gimeno
Promenade in three movements. About the chapel in Neviges by Gottfried Böhm
José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano
4 beams or anti-architecture
Eva M. Álvarez Isidro
Pekka Pitkänen: The chapel of the holy cross, Turku, 1967
Raúl Castellanos Gómez, Débora Domingo Calabuig
CEMETERY COMPLEX, MUNICH-RIEM. GERMANY
Meck architekten, Prof. Andreas Meck, Stephan Köppel
DE LA PIEDRA CHAPEL. CIENEGUILLA, LIMA. PERU
Nomena arquitectos + Ximena Alvarez
CAPELA DE QUEBRANTÕES. VILA NOVA DE GAIA. PORTUGAL
José Fernando Gonçalves
ST. PAOLO CHURCH, FOLIGNO, PERUGIA. ITALY
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
CHURCH AND PARISH CENTER SAN JORGE. PAMPLONA, NAVARRA. SPAIN
Tabuenca&Leache Arquitectos. Fernando Tabuenca y Jesús Leache
“IESU” CHURCH, SAN SEBASTIÁN. SPAIN
José Rafael Moneo
CHURCH AND PARISH CENTER “EL BUEN PASTOR” PONFERRADA, LEON. SPAIN
Ignacio Vicens y Hualde y José Antonio Ramos Abengózar
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