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Author Lindstrom, Randall S

Title Kenosis Creativity Architecture Appearance Through Emptying
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (275 p.)
Series Routledge Research in Architecture Ser
Routledge Research in Architecture Ser
Contents Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Jeff Malpas -- Acknowledgements -- PART ONE: Foundations -- 1. Introduction: Awaiting Kenosis -- Thinking about Kenosis -- Thinking about Kenosis through Architecture -- Thinking about Architecture through Kenosis -- 2. Kenosis: A Synoptic View -- Locus Classicus -- Antecedents -- Philosophy -- Judaism -- Medieval Thinking -- Meister Eckhart and Gelassenheit -- Rabbi Luria and Zimzum -- Modern Development and Revival -- Early Modernity -- Late Modernity -- Gelassenheit Redux
Analogous Concepts -- Buddhism and Taoism -- Hinduism -- Islam -- Postmodern Radicalisation -- PART TWO: Manifestations -- 3. Modernism and Order: Kahn at the Salk Institute -- Religiosity and Design -- Theories in Practice -- Idea -- Shadow -- Reality -- Creativity Ascribed -- Mystic -- Romantic Idealist -- Essentialist -- Social and Political Activist -- Each, All, and None -- A Deeper Provenance -- 4. Post-Modernism and Empathy: Pei at the Museumof Islamic Art -- Container and Contents -- Cultural Translation -- Rejection and Acceptance -- Readying and Awaiting -- The Approach
Situational Response -- Materialisation -- Exteriority -- Interiority -- Fidelity -- Dervish-ness as Kingly-ness -- 5. Neo-Modernism and Nothingness: Ando at the Churchof the Light -- Criticising Perfection -- Potentiality -- Receptivity -- Church and Liturgy -- Liturgy, Symbology, and Architecture -- Architecture and Church -- Creativity -- Conversations with Self and Others -- Conversations with Other Things -- Valorising Imperfection -- 6. Critical-Modernism and Kindness: Libeskind at the Jewish Museum Berlin -- Illustrations versus Captions -- Uncanniness -- Conceptualisation and Evolvement
Formality and Spatiality -- Hope -- Reconciliation and Continuity -- Questions and Negotiations -- Identity and Being -- Laughter -- Spectacularity and Exemplarity -- PART THREE: Amplifications -- 7. Turning Away and Turning Back: The End of Architecture -- Barriers to Emptying -- "-ists" -- "-isms" -- Emptying to Create -- Creators, Relationality, and Power -- Engagement -- Imagining and Imaging -- Upside Down and Inside Out -- Grounded in Emptying -- End-ing -- 8. Conclusion: The Grace of Dis-grace -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000347708
1000347702