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Kenosis Creativity Architecture: Appearance Through Emptying

Kenosis Creativity Architecture: Appearance Through Emptying

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Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

Religion General General Architecture

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ISBN10: 0367522187
ISBN13: 9780367522186
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 274
Language: English

Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity's grounding in the ancient concept of kenosis, the emptying that allows creativity to happen; that makes appearance possible.

It concretises that grounding through architecture--a primal expression of human creativity--critically examining, for the first time, kenotic instantiations evidenced in four iconic, international projects; works by Kahn, Pei, Ando, and Libeskind. Then, in a final turn, the potentiality of architecture's own emptying is probed. Architect and author Randall Lindstrom draws on Western and Eastern philosophy, including that of Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Vattimo, Nishida, and Nishitani, as well as on the theology of Christianity, Judaism, and aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. Every chapter expands the argument that, if responsiveness to our world is taken seriously--if proper and sustainable responses are to be realised--then a deeper understanding of creativity, and so kenosis, is essential.

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