Book DescriptionThis timely book reflects are awakening of interest in religious faiths and the emergence of a global exchange of architecture and culture. While Spain?s Rafael Monco has just completed a cathedral in Los Angeles, Britain?sThomas Heatherwick is designing a Buddhist temple in Japan, John Pawson is working on a Cistercian monastery in the Czech Republic, and Richard Meier has completed his Millennium Cathedral in Rome. As one Wallpaper* pundit commented, "religion is gettinga redesign," and the architect?s faith is as unimportant as his nationality. These buildings represent not only new ways of looking at religious architecture, but a vibrant cultural exchange that brings together the highest aesthetic and spiritual ideals, transcending religious and national boundaries. New Spiritual Architecture looks at the approaches contemporary architects have taken to religious or meditative space, focusing on churches, chapels, temples, synagogues, and...