Church Building (Classic Reprint): A Study of the Principles of Architecture in Their Relation - Couverture souple

Ralph Adams Cram

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440060088 ISBN 13 : 9781440060083

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how church architecture can become a living whole, not just a building .

This clear, insightful guide shows how design, decoration, and sacred spaces can unite to express a community’s faith and history.

This book argues that architecture for worship is not a style exercise but a creation that must reflect spiritual ideals, national character, and a coherent tradition. It critiques decorative trends that break the sanctity of sacred spaces and champions a disciplined, unified approach—rooted in English Gothic heritage—toward chapels, baptisteries, altars, and cathedrals.
What you’ll experience

• A thoughtful framework for planning churches as cohesive, living environments
• Practical guidance on sacristies, altars, and chancel fittings aligned with ritual use
• A critical history of church decoration, with examples of both pitfalls and ideal outcomes
• A long view on style, continuity, and national tradition in sacred architecture

Ideal for readers of architectural history, church design, and those seeking a informed perspective on how form serves faith.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Church Building: A Study of the Principles of Architecture in Their Relation

So far as the art itself is concerned, its notable advance owes as little to the schools as did its earliest inception in the first half of the nineteenth century. To this day schools of architecture are generally as scornful both of the problem and its stylistic expression as they ever have been since official architectural schools came into existence. Whatever has been gained has been without their aid, and simply because, schools or no schools, there was a new spirit working in the world, a new demand that inevitably produced the corresponding supply. There is nothing self-conscious in the religious art of the time, nothing factitious or premeditated; it is working instinctively though slowly, and it is gradually reaching out through all classes and all denominations. Little by little it is acquiring coherency, and when once this synthesis is accomplished, it may be able to rise to its high possibilities and materially aid in the achievement of that same coherency and synthesis in the organic forms of the religion it serves, as in the natural forms, which are architecture and all the arts when called into this service.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440060088
• ISBN 13: 9781440060083
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
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