The nature of religious architecture in the contemporary age is the focus
of two events being held at Yale this week.
A conference titled “Architecture for Worship in the 21st Century” will
take place Thursday,-Friday, Oct. 25-26, at the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM),
and a symposium titled “Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred
Architecture” will be held Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27, at the School of
Architecture.
ISM conference
“Architecture for Worship in the 21st Century” will bring together
architects, members of the clergy and designers to speculate about how future
houses of worship, particularly the church, can reflect changing religious and
spiritual attitudes in a culturally diverse world, while retaining their own
identity.
The ISM conference will begin on Thursday at 1 p.m., with introductory remarks
by conference organizers Jaime Lara, associate professor of Christian art and
architecture at ISM and the Divinity School, and Karla Britton, a lecturer at
the School of Architecture. It will feature three panels: “Rediscovering
Sacred Space: Worship, Architecture and Meaning in 20th-Century America,” “Ecclesiology
and Church Design: A Balancing Act In Times of Transition” and “New
Wine, Old Wineskins: Building and Rebuilding the House of the Church.” The
session will take place in the Great Hall at ISM, 409 Prospect St.
Robert Schuller, founding pastor and chair of the board of the Crystal Cathedral,
will deliver the keynote address at 6 p.m. that evening in Marquand Chapel, 409
Prospect St.
Friday’s session will be held 9 a.m.-noon at St. Thomas More Chapel and
Catholic Center at Yale, 268 Park St. The panel topics will be “A View
from Europe: The Spirituality of Spatial Emptiness” and “The Future
of Church Architecture in the United States.”
For more information about this conference or to register in advance, visit www.yale.edu/ism or call (203) 432-3220.
Architecture symposium
The Yale School of Architecture phase of this multidisciplinary event, “Constructing
the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture,” will begin at 2 p.m.
on Friday, following the ISM conference.
Jointly sponsored by the School of Architecture, the Yale Divinity School and
ISM, “Constructing the Ineffable” seeks to broaden the discussion
about the nature of the sacred in an architectural and urban context. An audience
of philosophers, architects, scholars and critics representing a mosaic of faiths
and cultures will consider the powerful influence of religion on public life
and explore the role architecture and design will play in the construction of
buildings of worship. Among the feature speakers will be architect Zaha Hadid,
Moshe Safdie, Stanley Tigerman, Peter Eisenman, Rafael Moneo and Steven Holl.
The afternoon session will focus on “Memory and Identity.” At 6:30
p.m., Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, will
deliver the keynote address, “The Earth, the Temple and Today.”
The Saturday program will include two sessions, “Constructing the Immaterial,” at
9:30 a.m. and “The Language of the Ineffable” at 1:30 p.m. A closing
response will be given by Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker magazine.
All sessions of the symposium will take place at the McNeil Lecture Hall of the
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. (enter on High Street).
For a complete list of participants or for registration information, visit the
website at www.architecture.yale.edu/?q=lectures/sacredarchitecture; call (203)
432-2889; or send e-mail to archevents@yale.edu.
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