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"This book provides a complete view of German Gothic church architecture. Architectural historian Norbert Nussbaum surveys church construction from the early thirteenth to the early sixteenth century in the German-language regions of medieval Europe. These areas of the Holy Roman Empire - including Bohemia, Austria, northern Switzerland, Alsace, Silesia and East Prussia - were hereditary fiefdoms at the time, and their diverse cultures contributed...
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Combining the practical with the spiritual as did their founders, the padres of the Franciscan order, these early missions are not only admirable examples of buildings conceived in the style and appropriate to the land in which they were built, but are still models of architectural beauty. The drawings and photographs in this collection will be useful for their many suggestions of how the mission architecture can be applied to modern works in similar...
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"The New Churches of Europe is primarily concerned with that one room in each religious complex which constitutes the rationale of its being: the room for worship. Ancillary adjuncts provided for educational and social activities, offices, quarters for priest or minister, etc, generally are omitted as being peripheral to the far more trying task of the design of the nave. Moreover, the book does not explore in detail, except where pertinent, building...
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Since the beginning of civilization, humans have paid homage to the spiritual realm by erecting beautiful structures on Earth. In this program, Dan Cruickshank visits Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai desert, built where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments; China's Hanging Temple, a Taoist monastery that clings precariously to the sheer face of a cliff; two 16th-century wooden churches in the Russian wilderness that still serve...
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