Sentences with phrase «of religious architecture»

It is the oldest city with a fascinating history where numerous styles of religious architecture can be found such as the Iglesia de San Juan de Barbalos convents of Santa Teresa and Las Claras.

In addition to the analysis of the religious architecture and Maya dwellings, he carried out three archaeological surveys in the area of Espiritu Santo Bay in Mexico.

This style of religious architecture had a lasting effect on the architecture of New England and other kinds of buildings — schoolhouses, town halls, libraries, even factories and mills.

Each of these projects contains some element of the timeless nature of religious architecture — ethereal light, transcendent acoustics, substantive materials crafted by artisans, symbols that speak across ages and cultures.

Not exact matches

American religious historian Peter Williams» Houses of God is an impressively broad and well - written illustrated survey of American religious architecture and the circumstances of its creation.

But he does not forget (except for the Seventh - day Adventists) the churches and temples of smaller and more marginal religious communities, buildings typically overlooked in standard surveys of American architecture.

The second is the equally incontestable fact that culture is derived from and connected to religion: architecture to temples of worship, drama to religious ritual, universities to acquiring sacred knowledge, music, sculpture and painting to the praise of the divine, indeed science and political economy themselves to categories generated by divine stories.

In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.

He is also the author of two books on religious architecture: Architecture for the Gods and Architecture for the Gods, Book II, published by Images Publishing Group.

Religious art illustrating each mystery is reproduced in colour to accompany the opening page of each section, and the argument is frequently developed with references to literature, art or architecture.

But the traditionalist view again lost the day, with the result that the new religious orientation included the separation of church and state (Jefferson and Madison), a democratic faith in the common person (Jacksonian democracy), and acceptance of a new romanticism which brought about a flourishing of the first truly national literature, art, and architecture.

Taking up the question of architecture, music, sculpture, painting, literature, philosophy, and the artistic life, Christian next refers to George Weigel's book, The Cube and the Cathedral, which uses Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (representing religious art) and La Grande Arche de la Defense (representing secular art) to ask, Which culture would better protect human rights and the moral foundations of democracy?

If beauty — not a particular beauty, but any beautiful thing — is a metaphor of the sacred, then there is no such thing as a uniquely «religious» or ecclesiastical idiom in architecture or in the other arts.

Here in a single decision is exemplified the paradox confronting American courts because they are in a religiously plural society — a paradox that hands to them the erstwhile religious task of articulating a moral architecture.

And, in their midst, it makes small jabs at modernity's consequences: the «Modern Churchman» who «draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief,» the enlightened prison warden — «I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression,» and avant - garde architecture — «india - rubber fungi in the recessed conservatory,» a floor that is «a large kaleidoscope, set in motion by an electric button.»

The relation between a «generalized symbolic medium of values «and what I earlier referred to as «moral architecture» or «set of religious terms» is quite clear and has long been recognized.

The passive voice enables him to finesse the awkward fact that the Turkish government laid stringent restrictions on expression of religious faith, including the forms of church architecture.

Located northeast from Mexico City, Morelia is a charming, historic city known for its Day of the Dead festivities, stunning religious buildings, baroque architecture, hospitable residents, and a world - renowned music conservatory.

The Foundation's Board of Trustees is comprised of a diverse and talented group of community leaders, with a skillset including business management, finance, education, government relations, public relations, community work, religious leadership, economic and workforce development, advocacy architecture, and youth services.

Nowhere better can the village's culture and atmosphere be better experienced than at the colourful market, whilst the Mararikulam Sree Madadeva Temple, dedicated to the supreme Hindu deity Shiva, is one of the most famous religious sites in the state of Kerala and is renowned for its beautiful architecture.

We definitely recommend visiting the Old Synagogue, one of the country's oldest surviving examples of Jewish religious architecture.

Step into this 14th - century Orthodox monastery, known as the pearl of Russian religious architecture.

Visit the cultural, religious and architecture rich centers of Morocco.

From golden cities with esteemed academic histories, to the cobbled streets of remote villages we can arrange itineraries that include some of Europe's finest art, spectacular religious architecture and ancient relics from the Roman era, as well as authentic gastronomic experiences such as Jamón serrano and Rioja wine.

There's the narrow, bustling cobbled streets and ancient architecture of the Jewish Quarter in Seville; the harmonious blend of two thousand years of Christian and Muslim religious history in the stunning Mezquita in Cordoba; the world - famous Alhambra set against the snow - covered peaks of Sierra Nevada in Granada, and the golden dome of Cádiz cathedral shimmering high over the white - tipped waves of the blue Atlantic ocean.

These proud monuments of Cambodian culture are internationally - acclaimed sites of religious and cultural importance, and superb examples of preserved ancient architecture.

Holding the title of Denmark's capital from 960 to 1536, Roskilde is full of old - school architecture, interesting religious buildings, and intriguing Viking - influenced museums.

This area of Pura Tirta but there are 30 fruit Empul with shower also President of the First Palace of the Republic of Indonesia that still stand firm with distinctive architecture and merge with nature and have a religious meaning.

These tiny streets are crammed full of buildings of religious, historical and cultural significance, and it makes for an interesting afternoon just to marvel at the array of architecture.

Attractions in Spain vary from exhibits of some of Europe's finest art, spectacular religious architecture and ancient relics from the Roman era.

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Another is Gilardi House, widely recognized as one of the few commendable examples of contemporary religious architecture, and one of the last projects of Barragán, designed it for art collector Francisco Gilardi.

In addition to the catacombs, tour the church and monastery to see some fantastic artwork, architecture, the beautiful wooden stairs, learn about the religious history, and see some subtle ways Christianity was spread throughout Peru, such as with a painting of the local Peruvian dish of guinea pig «cuy» served for the famous Last Supper before Jesus.

After the arrival of the Spaniards, the Dominicans religious order built the big convent mixing the Inca with colonial architecture.

A group of travelers had chosen a beautiful route to explore the religious, architecture, and cultural trail of Madhya Pradesh.

The shape of either end of this pipeline resembles the tapered arches visible in Gothic cathedrals and Islamic architecture, hinting at the religious connotation of entering the darkness then stepping into the light.

Turning painting into architecture, these works essentially function as political cartoons, populated by figures such as Barbara Bush, 20th - century religious prophet Aleister Crowley, and Dan Quayle, with themes ranging from the seven deadly sins and the four horsemen of the apocalypse to the great deluge.

Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and even the sciences, were becoming ill - fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world.

Casebere's exhibition is comprised of new images inspired by both secular and religious architecture from the geographical area of the Levant in the Middle East.

Buck's inspiration for the Vestige installation was Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel: both the architecture — specifically the broken grid of windows — as well as the hallowed context, which the religious aspects of some of the images echo.

Last year's prize was won by Elizabeth Prize for her video installation The Woolworths Choir of 1979, a multilayered film which weaved together the story of a fire in Manchester with religious architecture and pop music performances.

According to the curators of this year's show, the work of Nathan Coley, who was born in Glasgow in 1967, «explores the ways in which architecture and public space can symbolise systems of social and political value, as well as religious belief».

Specially conceived with the Sant «Antonin space in mind, S.A.C.R.E.D will also function as a dialogue between the artist and the existing Baroque architecture and its religious artifacts, offering an immediate sense of the drama of an event that underlines the contradictory development of China.

FAILE's work is constructed from found visual imagery, and blurs the line between «high» and «low» culture, but recent exhibitions demonstrate an emphasis on audience participation, a critique of consumerism, and the incorporation of religious media, architecture, and site - specific / archival research into their work.

In his upcoming exhibition at Galerie Forsblom Kolehmainen has for the first time used historical architecture as his works» starting point, photographing Istanbul's Byzantine and Medieval Ottoman religious structures of 500 - 600 A.D..