Modern architecture and the sacred : religious legacies and spiritual renewal /: religious legacies and spiritual renewal. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ross Anderson, Maximilian Sternberg.
• Editors: Anderson, Ross; Sternberg, Maximilian, 1979-
• Contents: List of figuresNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Ross Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia) and Maximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK)Part One Beginnings and transformations of the modern sacred 1. Architecture and the question of 'the' sacred, Peter Carl (University of Cambridge, UK)2 Romantic Kunstreligion and the search for the sacred in modern architecture: From Schinkel's Altes Museum as 'aesthetic church' to Zumthor's Bruder Klaus Field Chapel as Gesamtkunstwerk and 'heavenly cave', Gabriele Bryant (Independent Scholar)3. The Ordinary as the extraordinary: Modern sacred architecture in Germany, the United States and Japan, Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin, Ireland)4. Città dei Morti: Alvar Aalto's funerary architecture, Sofia Singler (University of Cambridge, UK)Part Two Buildings for modern worship5. Light, form and formación: Daylighting, church building and the work of the Valparaíso School, Mary Ann Steane (University of Cambridge, UK)6. Reading, storing and parading the book: Between tradition and modernity in the synagogue, Gerald Adler (University of Kent, UK)7. Compacting civic and sacred: Goodhue's University of Chicago Chapeland the modern metropolis, Stephen Gage (University of Reading, UK)8. A diaspora of modern sacred form: Auguste Perret, Le Corbusier and Paul Valéry, Karla Cavarra Britton (Diné College, Navajo Nation)9. Structure for spirit in The Architectural Review and The Architects' Journal, 1945–70, Sam Samarghandi (Independent Scholar, Australia)Part Three Semi-sacred settings in the cultural topography of modernity 10. Revelatory earth: Adolphe Appia and the prospect of a modern sacred, Ross Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia)11. Anagogical themes in Schwitters' Kathedrale des erotischen Elends, Matthew Mindrup (University of Sydney, Australia)12. Modern medievalisms: Curating the sacred at the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne (1932–9), Maximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK)13. Architecture, politics and the sacred in military monuments of Fascist Italy, Hannah Malone (Max Planck Institute, Germany)14. Atmosphere of the sacred: The awry in music, cinema, architecture, Michael Tawa (University of Sydney, Australia)BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 720.108; Architecture and religion -- History -- 20th century; Architecture, Modern; Religious architecture; Sacred space
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350098725; 9781350098718
• Related ISBNs: 9781350098664
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