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Sacred buildings : a design manual /

The building of religious structures represents a rare opportunity for the architect to concentrate on the creation of volume, space, and form. Sacred architecture is far less determined than other building tasks by functional requirements, norms, and standards. As a rule, it is free to unfold as pu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stegers, Rudolf
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2008.
Colección:Design Manuals.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Principles of sacred buildings
  • Church architecture past and present / Rudolph Stegers
  • Synagogue architecture in the recent past and present / Roman Hollenstein
  • Mosque architecture past and present / Negar Hakim
  • Acoustics in sacred buildings / Dorothea Baumann and Christina Niederstätter
  • Light in sacred buildings / Eva-Maria Kreuz
  • Selection of projects: Churches. Synagogues. Mosques. Crematoria and chapels of rest
  • Appendix.