Synopsis
Architects are rarely invited into the theological debate the way scientists often and artists sometimes are, this despite the obvious analogies between design and Design. Even when they are designing places of worship, the shape of their own faith is given no special place, nor the theological implications of what they are doing regardless of faith. (Indeed, mention "architecture" and "religion" or "God" in the same sentence, and the mind automatically flips to churchs and synagogues, and then to fifty cliche forms.) The idea behind this volume was to blaze a new trail in thinking rationally about religion, theology, and everyday life. It opens, new avenues of debate and discussion about the meaning of religious faith in the 21st century. For not only architects, of course, but also film-makers, writers, composers, painters, scientists, institution-builders, and inventors create-design-with similar if not the same ethical constraints and incentives. The desire of everyman to be creatively involved in life is, we submit, an essentially religious desire. Understanding why and how this is so through architecture might make this clearer to all, and more realizable.
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Michael Benedikt holds the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism and is the Director of The Center for American Architecture and Design at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught design studio and design theory since 1975. He is a graduate of The University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and of Yale University. He has practiced architecture both in medium-sized firms and on his own, with a number of buildings to his credit in Austin. His books include For an Architecture of Reality (Lumen Books, 1987), Deconstructing the Kimbell (Lumen Books, 1991), Cyberspace: First Steps (MIT Press, 1991, translated into three languages) Value and Value 2 (Center for American Architecture and Design, 1997, 1998), and Shelter: The 2000 Raoul Wallenberg Lecture (Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2001). He is also executive editor of the book-series CENTER: Architecture and Design in America. He has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, a Scholar in Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, Colin Clipson Fellow at the University of Michigan, and J. L Constant Professor at the University of Kansas. He has published over 100 articles and has delivered over 85 invited lectures in the U.S. and abroad on architectural practice, design theory and research, computing, art, and ethics. In 2003, he was awarded the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture s Teacher of Year Award, and in 2004 was named a Distinguished Professor by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). His latest writing explores themes in theology and the theory of evolution as it relates to the (human) act of design.
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CENTER, Volume 15: Divinity, Creativity, Complexity
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Center for American Architecture, 2010
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