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Religious Architecture
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Profiles
Beyond Symbolism: Farshid Moussavi on the Ismaili Center in Houston
The cultural building and community center reinterprets Islamic design philosophy through geometry, climate-responsive design, and generous civic spaces.
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Viewpoints
The Shakers: Culture, Craft, Community, and Care
Behind the separatist Christian sect that believed that every tool, object, and design choice should serve a purpose.
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Future100: Students Investigate Sacred Space
In designing places for worship, reflection, and ritual, architecture and interior design students question how design bridges the sacred and profane.
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Projects
A Progressive Addition Distinguishes a Toronto Synagogue Built in the ’30s
Diamond Schmitt Architects designed a contemporary update for the storied Holy Blossom Temple.
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Viewpoints
As Gottfried Böhm Turns 100, an Exhibition Foregrounds His Concrete Religious Architecture
Kicking off the nationwide celebrations, Böhm100 in Frankfurt presents the Pritzker Prize–winner's 1968 Neviges Cathedral in western Germany.
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A Poetic Respite in Abu Dhabi Blends Cultural Tradition With Contemporary Design
The Al Musallah Prayer Hall draws on Abu Dhabi’s rich history and desert landscape.
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In Italy, a Church Cleaved in Two Serves as a Gathering Place
Designed by three Italian firms, the minimal Church of the Penitent Thief adjoins a renovated, preexisting church that now functions as a community center.
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Let There Be Shade: A PoMo Church Looks to Gothic Architecture and Algorithms to Solve its Solar Problem
A renovation of the Phillip Johnson and John Burgee–designed Crystal Cathedral adds algorithmically-modeled shades to protect the congregation from the sun.
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Artist David Hartt Takes Over a Frank Lloyd Wright–Designed Synagogue
On view through December 19, David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier) explores themes of diaspora and belonging.
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Viewpoints
5 Highlights from New York City’s Architecture & Design Film Festival
At this year's edition, a run of films shine a light on issues of housing, from the perils of gentrification to the intractable challenge of urban homelessness.
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Profiles
Surveying L.A. Pomo: Moore Ruble Yudell
In this series of articles, Metropolis celebrates the diverse, innovative Postmodern architecture coming out of La La Land between 1975 and the early 1990s.
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Projects
OMA Unveils Dramatic New Community Center for Historic Temple in L.A.
Designed for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the trapezoidal Audrey Irmas Pavilion references and respects its historic neighbors.
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Projects
Houses of the Holy: Foster + Partners Reveals Chapel Design for Vatican’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion
The timber pavilion will be one of ten mini chapels designed on San Giorgio Maggiore on display at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Viewpoints
In America, A New Religious Architecture on the Rise
We are witnessing the emergence of a new kind of religious architecture within the United States today.
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Projects
This Bahá’í Temple Took 14 Years To Build—It Was Worth the Wait
South America's first Bahá’í Temple required over a decade of research and development—without that time, this ambitious project would never have seen the light.
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Viewpoints
Why Now, More Than Ever, We Need A New Islamic Architecture
Too many new mosques are being built in "traditional" styles that rely on outdated tropes and ignore the challenges Muslim Americans today are facing.
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Projects
At St. Peter’s Seminary, Previewing a Modernist Ruin’s Coming Revival
After languishing in a Scottish forest for three decades, a Modernist masterpiece enters a new stage of life.
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Projects
Turning Central Asia’s Ancient, Mesmerizing Patterns into Code
Two architects and a software engineer are preserving Central Asia's endangered tessellations as code.
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Viewpoints
The Curious Case of Poland’s Communist-Era Church Boom
The socialist state thought allowing the building of ecclesiastical structures would prevent citizens from protesting; in reality, it became an act of protest.
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Projects
South America’s First Bahá’i Temple is a Triumph of Material Innovation
The poetic form of the Bahá’i Temple of South America is a triumph of engineering and material innovation.