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Modern Sacral Architecture.
 PODROUŽKOVÁ, Petra
The thesis deals with European sacral architecture of the twentieth and the twenty-first century. Particularly, it refers to Judaic, Roman-Catholic and Islamic buildings. The second part puts into historical context the sacral constructions of individual religions including their function, characters and typology. In the third part of this thesis the representative sample of significant modern sacral constructions is selected, always under circumstances regarding their creation, the urban description and the setting in a specific location as well as the architectural layout, the interior arrangment and a possible use of special technological procedures at their construction. The mutual comparison and the evaluation of the modern European sacral architecture development are carried out in the fourth part. This section notices the function and the usage of light and presents some extraordinary buildings from this point of view. The final fifth part tries to answer the question, how a modern temple should look like.
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Islamic Architecture and Art.
 PODROUŽKOVÁ, Petra
The paper is focused on Islamic architecture; however, at the beginning it provides a description of relationships between Islamic religion and art and culture in general. In addition the paper deals with the importance of Muslim buildings in relation to Islamic symbolism. The third chapter is devoted to the conflict of two civilisations, beginning with the influence of the Islamic culture upon Europe in order to continue with the influence of Europe upon the Islam. The fourth chapter deals in details with selected important elements of the Islamic architecture (arch, geometric patterns, ornaments and calligraphy) and provides a list of basic Muslim buildings. The last chapter describes the development of the modern Islamic architecture in the 20th century while particular present sacral and secular buildings.
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