Modern religious architecture in Germany, Ireland and beyond : influence, process and afterlife since 1945 / edited by Lisa Godson and Kathleen James-Chakraborty.

Title & Author:

Modern religious architecture in Germany, Ireland and beyond : influence, process and afterlife since 1945 / edited by Lisa Godson and Kathleen James-Chakraborty.

Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xvii, 246 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Architects debate contemporary church building : postwar German sacred architecture, 1945-1960 / Kai Krauskopf -- Religion is form is art is politics : on the relationship between mosque building and the modern in Europe / Christian Welzbacher -- New life for churches in Ireland / Jill Kerry.

Summary:

Modernity and religion are not mutually exclusive. Setting German and Irish church, synagogue and mosque architecture side by side over the last century highlights the place for the celebration of the new within faiths whose appeal lies in part in the stability of belief they offer across time. Inspired by radically modern German churches of the 1920s and 1930s, this volume offers new insights into designers of all three types of sacred buildings, working at home and abroad. It offers new scholarship on the unknown phenomenon of mid-century ecclesiastical architecture in sub-Saharan Africa by Irish designers; a critical appraisal of the overlooked Frank Lloyd Wright-trained Andrew Devane and an analysis of accommodating difficult pasts and challenging futures with contemporary synagogue and mosque architecture in Germany.

ISBN:

9781501336096 hardcover alkaline paper
1501336096 hardcover alkaline paper
electronic book
9781501336119
9781501336126
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9781501336102 (PDF ebook)

Subject:

Religious architecture.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture religieuse.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
religious buildings.
Architecture and Planning.

Added entries:

Godson, Lisa, editor.
James-Chakraborty, Kathleen, 1960- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304646
Call No.: BIB 250304
Status: Available

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