Nothingness Tadao Ando's Christian sacred space /

• Main Author: Baek, Jin, 1969-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Subjects: Andō, Tadao, > 1941- > Criticism and interpretation.; Architecture > History > 20th century. > Japan; Architecture and religion.; Architecture and philosophy > Japan.; Nothing (Philosophy); Ando, Tadao.; Architecture.; Architecture and philosophy.; ARCHITECTURE > Religious. > Buildings; Electronic books.
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Based round an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando's Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance of the buildings of one the world's leading contemporary architects.

Table of Contents:

• Emptiness and Christianity
• Emptiness within Christianity
• Return to emptiness
• The School of Things (Mono-ha) and its criticism of modernity
• The emergence of the School of Things and space design
• The School of Things and anti-semiotics
• The School of Tthings and nothingness
• Nothingness, shintai and christian theology
• Kitaro Nishida's philosophy of nothingness
• Nothingness and shintai
• Nothingness and Christian theology
• Emptiness and the cross
• Emptiness and the demise of symbols
• The cross between romanticism and barbarism
• Emptiness filled with situational appearance
• Metaphysical light and phenomenal light
• Dark, light and gold
• Emptiness, the cross and shintai
• Shintai and corporeality of architectural elements
• Body attuned
• The penetrating light and the cross in efficacy
• Seeing in emptiness
• Beyond solitude
• The sublime.