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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Religious buildings
Churches are valuable not only for their significance within
Christian religion, but also because of the historic value of the
buildings themselves, and the artistic objects, furnishings and
decorative features contained within them. This book explains the
techniques and artistry involved in caring for the fabric and
contents of churches. It considers the problems of cleaning and
repair, and the damage that can be done by over-zealous
non-specialists. The contributions to this book are wide-ranging
and each chapter is written by a highly regarded specialist in
his/her field. In addition to offering guidance on the conservation
of stained glass, sculpture, textiles, metalwork, floors,
furniture, decorative plaster work, paintings and so on, the book
also covers the technical aspects of creating the right environment
with the heating, ventilation and lighting of the building. The
advice this volume contains should be essential reading for
everyone concerned with the care and upkeep of churches.
Im Gegensatz zu den professionellen sachsischen Architekten des 18.
und 19. Jahrhunderts finden die zahlreichen landlichen
Handwerksmeister nur wenig Beachtung. Dabei haben gerade diese
entscheidenden Anteil an der Weiterfuhrung der protestantischen
Gemeindekirche bis etwa 1860. Der bedeutendste unter ihnen ist der
Zimmermeister Christian Friedrich Uhlig aus Altenhain bei Chemnitz.
Nach seinen Planen wurden zwischen 1820 und 1850 im Erzgebirge und
seinem Vorland insgesamt 12 Kirchen errichtet. Konzeptionell stehen
sie mit umlaufenden Emporen und Kanzelaltar in der Tradition der
barocken Predigtkirche; architekturgeschichtlich spannen sie den
Bogen vom Barock uber klassizistische Elemente hin zu
historisierenden Formen. Die Untersuchung widmet sich neben Leben
und Werk Christian Friedrich Uhligs, vor allem der eingehenden
Beschreibung seiner Sakralbauten und ihres architektur- und
kirchengeschichtlichen Kontextes. Dabei wird versucht, das
Charakteristische an Uhligs Handschrift herauszuarbeiten und seinen
gewichtigen Beitrag zum sachsischen Kirchenbau im 19. Jahrhundert
wieder starker ins Bewusstsein zu rucken.
This beautifully conceived and produced survey of Islamic
architecture explores the glorious world of the caravansarai,
mausoleum, palace, and mosque. Focusing on the multifaceted
relation of architecture to society, Robert Hillenbrand covers
public architecture in the Middle East and North Africa from the
medieval period to 1700. Extensive photographs and ground plans --
among which are hundreds of newly executed three-dimensional
drawings that provide an accurate and vivid depiction of the
structure -- are presented with an emphasis on the way the specific
details of the building fulfilled their function.
Included are chapters on religious and secular architecture and
the architecture of tombs. Each building is discussed in terms of
function, the links between particular forms and specific uses, the
role of special types of buildings in the Islamic order, and the
expressions of different sociocultural groups in architectural
terms. Here the student or historian of Islamic architecture will
find an astonishing resource, including Maghribi palaces, Anatolian
madrasas, Indian minarets, Fatimid mausolea, and Safavid mosques,
each rendered in lavish illustrations and explained with
incomparable precision.
Text in English & German. Three places mark the chequered
history of the provost church of St Trinitatis Leipzig. Not far
from the site of the present new building was the historic church
built in 1847 that was largely destroyed in World War Two. It took
almost three decades for this church finally to be replaced in
1982. At the insistence of the East-German authorities, however,
this building had to be erected in a suburb. Because of its
inconvenient location and also because the building had structural
damage from the very beginning, the congregation decided in 2008 to
take a chance on a new start in the city centre. The third church
of St Trinitatis, consecrated in 2015, is the largest Catholic
church to be built in East Germany since the political turnover of
1989/90. The new church is located not only in the centre of town,
but at a place that could not be more prominent: facing the large
complex of the Neues Rathaus. In 2009 a competition held for the
new church building with the adjacent parish centre was won by the
Leipzig architects Ansgar and Benedikt Schulz. Their clever use of
the triangular site particularly impressed the selection committee;
at the same time, with the compact body of the church on the east
and the tower on the west, they created two striking urban
landmarks. Between the tower and the church is the spacious
courtyard, which is open on two sides towards the surrounding area,
emphasising the congregations programmatic 'openness'. The complex
owes its homogenous appearance to the fact that all parts of the
buildings are clad with local porphyry, an igneous rock that
shimmers in delicate shades of red. While outwardly the church
looks quite hermetic, the interior, with an inside height of 14.5
m, surprises the visitor by its vibrant luminosity. The decisive
factor here is the skylight on the east side at a height of 22 m.
From a source that is invisible to the worshippers, zenith light
falls on the entire back wall behind the altar. In its disposition
the church interior follows the decisions of the Second Vatican
Council: separation between the priests space and the congregations
space is abolished, the high altar is replaced by a peoples altar,
and the faithful gather of the believers in communio around the
liturgical centre. In addition to his main activity as an
architecture publicist Wolf-gang Jean Stock was head of the
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur christ-liche Kunst and its gallery in
Munich for nine years. Considering his rigorous artistic attitude,
instinctively reminiscent of the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher,
there is a certain consistency about the fact that the photographer
Stefan Muller congenially creates images of the buildings of Owald
Mathias Ungers, Max Dudler, Kleihues + Kleihues or Schulz und
Schulz.
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