Product Description

Covers a wide variety of religious facilities, including churches of various denominations, mausoleums, synagogues, mosques, temples, and educational spaces.
* Covers issues such as consensus-based decision making, site selection, renovation, and code compliance, as well as working closely with parishioners during the decision making process, incorporating iconography, and the emotional impact of space.
* The author has more than 25 years of professional experience, including a management role in the design and construction of the $163 million Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #845785 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

From the Inside Flap
Building Type Basics for Places of Worship presents practical guidelines and inspirational design ideas to jump-start a broad range of religious building projects. To steer the project team to sound decisions early in the planning cycle, Nicholas Roberts, a renowned architect of places of worship, provides guidelines, advice, and lessons learned from a variety of actual design projects for churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples. Descriptive illustrations and need-to-know information cover such essential topics as consensus-based decision-making, site selection and planning, worship space design, art and furnishing selection, historic renovation, code compliance, and more.

This indispensable guide:

• Asks and answers twenty questions that frequently arise in the early phases of a project commission
• Provides project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details
• Includes design guidelines for a variety of places of worship, including some of the most innovative contemporary designs

This conveniently organized quick reference is an invaluable guide for busy, dedicated professionals who want to get moving quickly as they embark on a new project. Like every Building Type Basics book, it provides authoritative, up-to-date information instantly and saves architects and facility planners countless hours of research.

Engineering consultants will also find in this volume a wealth of information to help them tackle religious facility commissions of every kind and scale.

From the Back Cover
The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects

"The series is welcome . . . By providing recent buildings as examples, supported with technical information and charts of design criteria, these books attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice."
--Oculus

Building Type Basics books provide architects, engineers, and facility planners with the essentials they need to jump-start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy-to-follow format. The result is an excellent, hands-on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.

Building Type Basics for Places of Worship is a practical guide to all of the design considerations for a broad variety of religious facilities--from predesign research to operations and maintenance. Complete with descriptive illustrations, this useful resource offers essential information, guidelines, and cautionary advice on building projects for churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, and spaces for religious education.

About the Author
NICHOLAS W. ROBERTS, AIA, a senior associate at Leo A Daly, leads the firm’s Los Angeles office religious building group. He managed the executive architecture and engineering team for the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, designed by Rafael Moneo. His portfolio includes parish churches and religious education buildings for several denominations. Roberts is a member of the faculty at Woodbury University and a frequent speaker at architectural conferences.
STEPHEN A. KLIMENT, FAIA (Series Founder and Editor), is an architectural journalist and an adjunct professor at the City College of New York. He was chief editor of Architectural Record from 1990 to 1996.

Customer Reviews

Places of Worship
A useful primer for anyone involved in the design of places of worship. Covers a wide range of design considerations and uses sophisticated examples.