On November 5, 2011, there will be a closing ceremony for the Sacred Spaces in Profane Buildings exhibition curated by Matilde Cassani, hosted by Storefront for Art and Architecture. The event will feature a panel discussion with Courtney Bender, Columbia University, Department of Religion; Maria Gonzales Pendas, GSAPP Columbia University; Patricia Bellucci, Fordham Center on Religion and Culture; along with representatives from religious communities and individuals who submitted to the project’s open call.
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October 29th, 2011
Sacred Spaces in Profane Buildings: closing ceremony and panel discussion
posted by Charles Gelman
August 22nd, 2011
Sacred spaces in profane buildings
posted by Annie Hardison-MoodyOpening on September 13th, Storefront for Art and Architecture will present ”Sacred Spaces in Profane Buildings: a New York Archive,” a project by Matilde Cassani. This collaborative project is open for submissions and seeks to explore the hidden landscape of New York religious life.
March 24th, 2011
Holy City (a history of Chicago’s future)
posted by Marshall Brown
Pilgrims immediately flooded the City of Chicago when Oprah Winfrey left this earth on Her 120th birthday. Millions of global devotees knew Her as The Oprah, and the institutional complex that She left behind became a holy city. After The Oprah Winfrey Show ended, in 2011, She decided not to move west, since California’s bankruptcy had made the establishment of a new media empire in Los Angeles seem increasingly implausible.
December 13th, 2010
Urban planning in Saudi Arabia
posted by Jessica PolebaumFrom Jidda, Nicolai Ouroussoff reports on a Saudi governemnt plan to engineer four new urban centers—what the planners are calling ”economic cities”—in the Arabian desert, all to be completed by 2030. This massive endeavor is projected to create over a million new jobs and four million new homes. These new cities, the government claims, will pave the way for a less-oil dependent economic future and will open space for a new class of doctors, engineers, and businessmen to flourish, but the cities have also been designed to effect another sort of social change.
July 3rd, 2010
The sacred architecture of secular Yugoslavia
posted by James Robertson
Postwar Yugoslavia was confronted with a rather difficult task: How to give meaning to a new state that was simultaneously the protectorate of religious and national difference but also a project that transcended these differences? Bogdan Bogdanovic’s work, largely focused on monuments commemorating the victims of fascism, was ideal for trying to give this project an architectural language.
April 20th, 2010
Talk: architecture, technology, and “mediated congregation”
posted by Charles GelmanTomorrow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge, Erica Robles will present “The Crystal Cathedral Megachurch: Architecting the Rise of Mediated Congregation.” The talk, which runs from 12-2pm, will focus on the confluence of architectural postmodernism and emergent media technologies in the reconfiguration of sacred space under the glittering arches of the American megachurch.
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