Authors on Architecture: Geva on Water & Sacred Architecture
SAH/SCC Zoom Program
Sunday, June 09, 2024
Join
Anat Geva, PhD, Assoc. AIA, for a return engagement in our Authors on
Architecture program as she presents her work as editor of Water and Sacred Architecture (Routledge, 2023).
This book examines architectural representations
that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, to the sacred. The discussion
centers on two levels of this relationship: how water influenced the sacredness
of buildings across history and religions; and how sacred architecture expressed
the spiritual meaning of water.
The
book’s chapters are compiled by a stellar group of scholars and practitioners from
the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. All chapters are based on original archival
studies, historical documents, and field visits to the sites and buildings. These
examinations show water as an expression of architectural design, its materiality,
and its spiritual values.
Geva is a registered
architect in Israel and Professor Emerita of Architecture at Texas A&M University
(College Station), where she taught design, historic preservation, and the history
of sacred architecture and of building technology. Among other books, she is the
author of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture: Faith, Form, and Building
Technology (Routledge, 2011) and The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s (Texas A&M Press,
2023).
Geva on Water—Sunday, June 9, 2024; 1-2:30 PM Pacific;
$5; go to www.sahscc.org and pay
via PayPal. Zoom link sent upon registration.
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