Constructing the ineffable : contemporary sacred architecture / Karla Cavarra Britton, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : the case for sacred architecture / Karla Cavarra Britton -- The earth, the temple and today / Vincent Scully -- Untimely meditations on the need for sacred architecture / Kartsten Harries -- Architecture, memory and the sacred / Miroslav Volf -- Revealing concealment / Mark C. Taylor -- Constructing the immaterial in spaces large and small / Emilie M. Townes -- Rudolf Schwarz and Mies van der Rohe : the form of the spirit / Thomas H. Beeby -- The secular spirituality of Tadao Ando / Kenneth Frampton -- Temples of light / Diana Eck -- Visionaries or lunatics? : architects of sacred space, even in outer space / Jaime Lara -- The tribe versus the city-state : a conundrum for the Jewish project / Stanley Tigerman -- Jubilee Church (Dio Padre misericordioso), Rome / Richard Meier -- Architecture as a vehicle for religious experience : the Los Angeles Cathedral / Rafael Moneo -- Faith and form : contemporary space for worship and pilgrimage / Fariborz Sahba -- Theistic--polytheistic--non-theistic / Steven Holl (with David Van der Leer) -- The architecture of memory : seeking the sacred / Moshe Safdie -- Is there a religious space in the twenty-first century? / Peter Eisenman -- The contemporary mosque / Zaha Hadid -- Epilogue : on the relevance of sacred architecture today / Paul Goldberger.