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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Ecclesiastical architecture"”.
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Prairie Spirit: Medieval Revival Ecclesiastical Architecture in Saskatchewan, 1839 - 1913
Architecture is an excellent indicator of the society that produced it. Saskatchewan’s architecture, however, has not received sufficient analysis and there are some major gaps in its history. One of the greatest gaps concerns the medieval revival styles, the Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival …
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Stained glass : an investigation into the design potentials of an architectural material
… was strongly questioned even in the bastions of ecclesiastical architecture. The context of architectural philosophy is studied to elucidate the qualities of the material as a design medium. Two case studies from the 1880s, Trinity Church and the Yerxa-Field residence, are analyzed. A short …
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A design for worship
“...the truest way to an honest and inspiring architecture is through a sincere attempt to gain beauty in a simple way.”<sup>1)</sup> Talbot Hamlin The work contained herein does not attempt to be a solution to church design problems. It is, rather, a step in the direction of design with a sound …
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Building protestant modernism : John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the architecture of an American internationalism (1919-1939)
… Institute-I show how Rockefeller leveraged architecture to present an American internationalism and its scientific and religious modernity as a "logical" fit for diverse regions and conditions. From the Pacific Coast to the Middle East, his team of architects, theologians, archaeologists, …
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Building Alvar Aalto's Church of the Three Crosses (1955–58)
… themes unique to, or especially relevant in, the ecclesiastical context, and that their influence is legible in the architecture of the building itself. The thesis enriches previous assumptions which hold that Aalto’s religious projects were primarily opportunistic undertakings unrelated to …