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Value: Center 10 & 11 Boxed Set
ed. Michael Benedikt

Center for American Architecture and Design, 1999

Twenty six original essays by prominent philosophers, economists, sociologists, psychologists, and urbanists on the evolution of moral, esthetic, and economic values, with a special emphasis on architecture and the contemporary landscape.

For an Architecture of Reality

13 reviews
Michael Benedikt

Lumen Books, 1992

Very important
I'm in the middle of an M.ARCH degree right now and this book has been the most influential thing I've read so far. It reminds me why I'm in school and what I'm supposed to be learning how to do. You can make sexy images and wonderful compositions that pretend to be sections and plans, or, you can think about the actual presence of the building. It's the difference between Hadid's work - which is ...

God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy

3 reviews
Michael Benedikt

Bottino Books, 2007

A Transformative and Uplifting New "Interpretation" of God
God is the Good We Do is, by turns, profound, witty, poetic, and ultimately very practical. Thoroughly researched and beautifully argued, Benedikt's "Theology of Theopraxy" is also strikingly original. I believe this book will be discussed for many years. Those who are uncomfortable with "God talk," but who understand that "God" is too important to be surrendered to fundamentalists should ...

God, Creativity, and Evolution - The Argument from Design(ers)
Michael Benedikt

The Center for American Architecture and Design, 2008

How could something as vast, intricate, vivid, and beautiful as the natural world have come about except by the will and "hand" of a supernaturally powerful and intelligent Designer? The Answer - It could not have - lies at the root of one of the best known "proofs" of the existence of God. Certainly, the so-called 'Argument from Design' forms the basis of the modern Intelligent Design (previous Creationist) movement, which, although it ...