Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom

ISBN-13: 9781138487116 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 236 str.

UK) Kate Jordan (University of Westminster; UK) Ayla Lepine (University of Essex

Opis

Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s. This book is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this genre of architecture and its associated visual culture and communal experience. Examples range from Nuns’ holy spaces celebrating the life of St Theresa of Lisieux to utopian American desert communities and their reliance on the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin. Modern religious architecture converses with a broad spectrum of social, anthropological, cultural and theological discourses and the authors engage with them rigorously and innovatively. As such, new readings of sacred spaces offer new angles and perspectives on some of the dominant narratives of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries: empire, urban expansion, pluralism and modernity. In a post-traditional landscape, religious architecture suggests expansive ways of exploring themes including nostalgia and revivalism; engineering and technological innovation; prayer and spiritual experimentation; and the beauty of holiness for a brave new world. Shaped by the tensions and anxieties of the modern era and powerfully expressed in the space and material culture of faith, the architecture presented here creates a set of new turning points in the history of the built environment.

Spis treści

Introduction: Building the Kingdom: Architecture, Worship, and the Sacred, Kate Jordan and Ayla Lepine  Part I. Pilgrimage and Modern Journeys  1 Sisterly Love in Lisieux: Building the Basilica of Sainte-Thérèse, Jessica Basciano  2 Modernity Consecrated: Architectural Discourse and the Catholic Imagination in Franquista Spain, María González Pendás  3 The Construction of Modern Montserrat: Architecture, Politics and Ideology, Josep-Maria Garcia Fuentes  4 Paolo Soleri’s Teilhard De Chardin Cloister at Arcosanti, Alicia Imperiale  Part II. Monasticism and Religious Houses  5 Prairie Progressivism: George P. Stauduhar and St. Benedict’s Convent, Barbara Burlison Mooney  6 Modern, Gothic, Anglican: The Society of St John the Evangelist, Oxford, Ayla Lepine  7 Constructing Identity: The ‘Building Nuns’ of Presteigne, Kate Jordan  8 Revolution and Revelation: Luis Barragán’s Monastery at Tlalpan, Jose Bernardi  Part III. Urban Cultures and Holy Cities  9 Situating Jerusalem: Poesis and Techne in the American Urbanism of Jemima Wilkinson and Thomas Jefferson, Anne Englot  10 Origins, Meaning and Memory in Louis Kahn’s Hurva Synagogue Proposal, Tamara Morgenstern  11 Chicago’s Woodlawn Neighbourhood: The Case of St Gelasiusm, Anatole Upart  12 Nuns in the Suburb: The Berlaymont Institute in Waterloo by Groupe Structures, Sven Sterken