描述
VOLUME 67: WORSHIPING explores new and changing religious and spiritual practices around the world. Religions historically have formed the most inspiring client base for architecture and design worldwide. Whereas it was long expected that religion would eventually fade out with the growing importance of wealth and liberalism, the opposite is happening. Christianity and Islam are still growing worldwide. New and often hybridized forms of worshipping in mindfulness, wellness culture, and other bodily practices are sprouting. The realignment between religion and political life in India, Russia, and the United States makes exploring the contemporary role of religious life all the more urgent. When new versions of spiritual life are explored everywhere, the central question for an architecture medium remains: does this still relate to design and architecture?
VOLUME 67: WORSHIPING brings inspiring reports from new and changing spiritual life in as many forms as possible around the globe: from building universal houses of prayer in Berlin, Hong Kong, and airports worldwide, to the bleakness of Mayan wellness worship in Tulum, forgotten religious dance moves in Paris, new church music that engages its architecture, the architecture of the dead on different continents, the return of Chinese god Guandi on the coattails of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Indian Ocean, feng shui design, Mormon underpinnings of Silicon Valley’s attempts at new community designs, the hybridization of indigenous belief systems and Christian faith in Nigeria, to the reversed missionary work of international Christian communities to bring faith back to the Netherlands, and much more.
VOLUME 67: WORSHIPING includes photo essays by Iwan Baan, Bram Petraeus, Marieke van den Heuvel, Andreas Duscha, and others.
