Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The apocryphal project of modern and contemporary architecture / Renata Hejduk and Jim Williamson -- Religion and myth / Luis Barrag�an -- When the sacred journey ends: protestant thought and the meaning of puritanical modern architecture / Thomas H. Beeby -- Modernity / Gustavo Benavides -- Shiva, Luria, Kahn / Michael Benedikt -- The architecture of hope: Daniel Libekind's Jewish museum / Andrew Benjamin -- 'Art and society' from 1909 / Hendrik Petrus Berlage -- Revolution and revelation: Luis Barrag�an's divergent modernism / Jos�e Bernardi -- Notes from volume zero: Louis Kahn and the language of God / Joseph Burton -- Ecclesia / Massimo Cacciari -- The godless temple, 'oragnon of the infinite' / Peter Carl -- The Woodland cemetery: towards a spiritual landscape, Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz 1915-1961 / Caroline Constant -- The public, the private, and the sacred / Charles Correa -- A dwelling for man within the harmony of the cosmos / Maria Antonietta Crippa -- Excellence: the culture of Mies as seen in his notes and books / Francesco Dal Co -- The sacred and the modern artist / Mircea Eliade -- Re: Neoconservative architecture, neoconservative politics: a mighty fortess: Quinlan Terry and the reformation of architecture / Martin Filler and Quinlan Terry -- Transcendental renaissance in the arts 1890-1920 / Raymond H. Geselbracht -- Explorations of Jewish space 1978-present / David Gissen -- Spiritual basis of creativity / Paul Goesch (Tancred) -- Architecture's destiny / K. Michael Hays -- The sweet juice bled / John Hejduk -- The wallpaper / John Hejduk -- Step into liquid: rites, transcendence, and transgression in the modern construction of the social sacred / Renata Hejduk -- J.L.M. Lauweriks and K.P.C. de Bazel: architecture and theosophy / Susan R. Henderson -- The architectural metaphor / Denis Hollier -- Rudolf Schwarz: modern churches in a modern culture / Richard Kieckhefer -- Leon Krier's theology of traditionalism: an interview with Peter Eisenman / Leon Krier and Peter Eisenman -- Formal, informal, and Jewish question / Sanford Kwinter -- Cathedral without walls: theosophical modernism for American democracy / Jonathan Massey -- Frank Lloyd Wright: "the architect as preacher" / Debra A. Meyers -- The task of architecture / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Beauty is the radiance of truth / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- St. Savior Chapel, IIT Campus, Chicago / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Alchemical and mythical themes in the poem of the right angle 1947-1965 / Richard A. Moore -- The Aura of the sacred: art, architecture, and existential sacredness / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Abstraction in modern architecture: the Gnostic dimension / Alberto P�erez-G�omez -- Eschatology / Colin Rowe -- The dark side of the Bauhaus / Joseph Rykwert -- The foundation / Rudolf Schwarz -- Prayer for a house / David Shapiro -- "Mein Weltbild" (my world-picture), 19 October 1920 / Bruno Taut (Glas) -- Nuclear architecture or fabulous architecture or tragic architecture or ... / Mark C. Taylor -- Purity / Mark C. Taylor -- Architecture and theology / Quinlan Terry -- Construction (de)construction (re)construction: architectural antinomies and a (re)newed beginning / Stanley Tigerman -- The ideal of holy emptiness / Paul Tillich -- Living and working in paradise / Richard Wesley -- The crystal chain / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Cosmopolitan architectures: notes on drawing / Jim Williamson.