Modern Architecture and the Sacred (eBook, PDF)

Religious Legacies and Spiritual Renewal
Redaktion: Anderson, Ross; Sternberg, Maximilian

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350098718
• Artikelnr.: 60335321

Autorenporträt

Ross Anderson is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia. Maximilian Sternberg is a University Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Fellow of Pembroke College at Cambridge University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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