Authors on Architecture: "Geva on Water and Sacred Architecture"
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.
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 All chapters are based on original archival studies, historical
documents, and field visits to the sites and buildings.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.
