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The Architecture, Culture, and
Spirituality Forum (ACSF) |
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A Forum for Scholarship, Practice, and
Discussion of Spirituality and Meaning in the Built Environment |
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Collected Abstracts of the Eighth ACS
Symposium (June 23-26, 2016) |
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Edited by Ben Jacks & Michelangelo
Sabatino (Symposium Chairs) |
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Note: all submissions to the symposium
underwent peer review by at least 3 readers. Archived 06/07/2016 |
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General Topic: Utopia,
Architecture, and Spirituality |
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Session 1: Places of Worship |
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Rebecca Pressimone |
Exploring Nineteenth Century Church Architecture in
Saint Louis, Missouri: 1870-1900 |
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Sarah Angne |
Disneyland or Holyland? The Crystal Cathedral, an Architectural Wonder |
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Tammy Gaber |
The First Mosque in Canada, Al Rashid, A Utopia of Place and Community
Engagement |
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Session 2: Spirituality, Nature, and
Landscape |
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Roberto Chiotti |
Finding Our Way ÔBack to the GardenÕ Implications for Designers and
Educators in the 21st Century |
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Dennis Alan Winters |
Utopia as Heaven from The Twilight Zone to the Buddha Fields |
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Session 3: Utopia and Architecture 1 |
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Thomas Barrie |
Domestic Utopias: the 18th Century English Anglican Evangelical
Movement and the Birth of the Suburb |
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Janet White |
The Oneida Community: Spirituality and Architecture in a Bible
Communist Utopia |
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Timothy Parker & Margaret Grubiak |
Landscapes of Religious Pluralism: Understanding
Difference and the Common Good |
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Session 4: Utopia and
Architecture 2 |
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John Alexander |
Inventing the Tridentine Utopia: Two
Sixteenth-Century Urban Projects in the Duchy of Milan |
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Julian Norman-Webb |
Building Utopias |
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Tracey Eve Winton |
Traversing the Threshold: Ornament and Liminality in Balinese
Architecture |
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Session 5: Green Utopia |
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Nader Ardalan |
The Quest for a Spiritually Inspired, Holistically Sustainable
Habitat: Nuran- The City of Illumination, Isfahan |
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Ming Hu |
Is
the eco-district a new model of Utopia? Examining sustainable development
through the lenses of Utopia |
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Phillip James Tabb |
Rural URBAN Eutopias: Compresent Unity of Opposites |
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Session 6: Writing + Drawing Utopia |
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Lindsay Jones |
Locative versus Utopian: Two Competing Approaches to Sacred Space |
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Mark Baechler |
Abrahamic Mythological Universe |
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Alireza Karbasioun |
Re-Launching History: Utopia and Spirituality from
Carceri to Junkspace and Beyond |
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Session 7: Design Pedagogies |
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Mikesch Muecke |
The Aurelian Wall as An Existential Place and as Utopian Projection |
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Clive Knights |
Uninvited Guests: Digesting the Unfathomable Implications of Multiple
Horizons |
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Ben Jacks |
The Institute for Food: a University Small Farm Living/Learning
Community as Transformative Idea and Utopian Ideal |
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Session 8: Utopian Visions |
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Norman Crowe |
The Environmental Movement and Utopian Visions of the City of the
Future |
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Michael Crosbie & Theodore Sawruk |
Playing the Starring Role of Utopia/Dystopia:
Architecture in Film |
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Session 9: Utopia and Architecture 3 |
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Prem Chandavarkar |
The
Utopia of the Everyday |
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Wendy Redfield |
Peter ZumthorÕs Beautiful Silence |
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Julio Bermudez |
Utopia: A Phenomenological Critique with an
Architectural Promise |
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GO
BACK to 2016 ACS Symposium webpage |
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to the ACS Forum webpage |
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