Less well known is the story of how by 1960 this business of turning out correct glass box after correct glass box began to bore even the most profoundly religious architects... and how there ensued a frenzied attempt to come up with a style that looked different but broke none of the holy trinity's commandments... resulting in the Tower of Babelish babble-gaggle of isms I've mentioned.
It's no wonder then that a stream of historians, architects, religious groups and Shaker buffs routinely come to Harvard to get a glimpse of the Meeting House and the rest of the Shaker buildings in the neighborhood, even though, as Mr. Feist points out, "this is not a tourist destination".
Last August, the Auschwitz Museum invited a group of thirty-two experts — conservators, architects, historians, religious leaders, and government representatives from the United States, Western Europe, and Israel — to consult with museum officials on preservation work at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
And Gaudí, to whom a penitential relationship with an implacable God was the very core of religious belief, was just the architect to convey this in stone.
Schaeffer, the intellectual architect of the religious right in America, helped a generation of young evangelicals understand that the corrosive forces of secular humanism were eating away at the foundations of the Christian west.
Even before he was put on the national ticket, Pence was already famous in gay circles as the architect of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which effectively legalized discrimination against LGBTQ people in Indiana.
The Greek poet Homer, in the Odyssey, noted the mobility of guildsmen, mentioning religious personnel as well as architects, physicians, and minstrels.
Palladio's two guidebooks to the "City of Wonders," published in 1554 and immensely popular in their day, are addressed both to his fellow architects and to religious tourists.
It was essential to Lancaster that Warwick be welcoming -- for the enjoyment of not only his guests, but also the architects, artists, writers, religious thinkers and other creative people he hoped would find inspiration amid its contemplative calm after his death.
A panel of five independent judges ― comprised of architects, artists and religious leaders ― selected the winners, which feature a mixture art, architecture, unbuilt projects and student work.
