This edited volume, Modern Architecture and the Sacred, presents a timely reappraisal of the manifold engagements that modern architecture has had with 'the sacred'. It comprises fourteen individual chapters arranged in three thematic sections - Beginnings and Transformations of the Modern Sacred; Buildings for Modern Worship; and Semi-Sacred Settings in the Cultural Topography of Modernity. The first interprets the intellectual and artistic roots of modern ideas of the sacred in the post-Enlightenment period and tracks the transformation of these in architecture over time. The second studies…mehr
This edited volume, Modern Architecture and the Sacred, presents a timely reappraisal of the manifold engagements that modern architecture has had with 'the sacred'. It comprises fourteen individual chapters arranged in three thematic sections - Beginnings and Transformations of the Modern Sacred; Buildings for Modern Worship; and Semi-Sacred Settings in the Cultural Topography of Modernity. The first interprets the intellectual and artistic roots of modern ideas of the sacred in the post-Enlightenment period and tracks the transformation of these in architecture over time. The second studies the ways in which organized religion responded to the challenges of the new modern self-understanding, and then the third investigates the ways that abstract modern notions of the sacred have been embodied in the ersatz sacred contexts of theatres, galleries, memorials and museums. While centring on Western architecture during the decisive period of the first half of the 20th century - a time that takes in the early musings on spirituality by some of the avant-garde in defiance of Sachlichkeit and the machine aesthetic - the volume also considers the many-varied appropriations of sacrality that architects have made up to the present day, and also in social and cultural contexts beyond the West.
Ross Anderson is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney. Maximilian Sternberg is a University Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Fellow of Pembroke College at Cambridge University.
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List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 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 worship 5. 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) Bibliography Index
List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 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 worship 5. 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) Bibliography Index
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