Baek, Jin

Nothingness Tadao Ando's Christian sacred space / [electronic resource] : Jin Baek - Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2009 - 1 online resource (xi, 212 p.) : ill., maps, plans

Includes index Description based on print version record

Emptiness and Christianity -- Emptiness within Christianity -- Return to emptiness -- The School of Things (Mono-ha) and its criticism of modernity -- The emergence of the School of Things and space design -- The School of Things and anti-semiotics -- The School of Tthings and nothingness -- Nothingness, shintai and christian theology -- Kitaro Nishida's philosophy of nothingness -- Nothingness and shintai -- Nothingness and Christian theology -- Emptiness and the cross -- Emptiness and the demise of symbols -- The cross between romanticism and barbarism -- Emptiness filled with situational appearance -- Metaphysical light and phenomenal light -- Dark, light and gold -- Emptiness, the cross and shintai -- Shintai and corporeality of architectural elements -- Body attuned -- The penetrating light and the cross in efficacy -- Seeing in emptiness -- Beyond solitude -- The sublime


Mode of access: Internet

9780203642818 (electronic bk.) 0203642813 (electronic bk.) 9780415478533 (hbk : alk. paper) 9780415478540 (pbk : alk. paper) 0415478537 (hbk : alk. paper) 0415478545 (pbk : alk. paper)


And¯o, Tadao--Criticism and interpretation


Architecture--History--Japan--20th century
Architecture and religion
Architecture and philosophy--Japan
Nothing (Philosophy)