{"product_id":"modern-architecture-and-the-sacred-9781350294356","title":"Modern Architecture and the Sacred","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoss Anderson is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaximilian Sternberg is a University Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Fellow of Pembroke College at Cambridge University, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs religiosity declined in the West, architecture became the bearer of a powerful secular spirituality, widely ignored in the standard histories. In its broad and inclusive approach, this volume argues persuasively that the pursuit of the sacred was a key constituent of 20th-century architectural design and theory: a revision long overdue. * Iain Boyd Whyte, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements  Introduction, \u003ci\u003eRoss Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia) and Maximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart One Beginnings and transformations of the modern sacred\u003c\/b\u003e   1. Architecture and the question of ‘the’ sacred, \u003ci\u003ePeter Carl (University of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  2 Romantic \u003ci\u003eKunstreligion\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/i\u003e and ‘heavenly cave’, \u003ci\u003eGabriele Bryant (Independent Scholar)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. The Ordinary as the extraordinary: Modern sacred architecture in Germany, the United States and Japan, \u003ci\u003eKathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin, Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. \u003ci\u003eCittà dei Morti\u003c\/i\u003e: Alvar Aalto’s funerary architecture, \u003ci\u003eSofia Singler (University of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart Two Buildings for modern worship\u003c\/b\u003e  5. Light, form and \u003ci\u003eformación\u003c\/i\u003e: Daylighting, church building and the work of the Valparaíso School, \u003ci\u003eMary Ann Steane (University of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  6. Reading, storing and parading the book: Between tradition and modernity in the synagogue, \u003ci\u003eGerald Adler (University of Kent, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Compacting civic and sacred: Goodhue’s University of Chicago Chapeland the modern metropolis, \u003ci\u003eStephen Gage (University of Reading, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  8. A diaspora of modern sacred form: Auguste Perret, Le Corbusier and Paul Valéry, \u003ci\u003eKarla Cavarra Britton (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiné College, Navajo Nation)\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Structure for spirit in \u003ci\u003eThe Architectural Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Architects’ Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, 1945–70, \u003ci\u003eSam Samarghandi (Independent Scholar, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart Three Semi-sacred settings in the cultural topography of modernity\u003c\/b\u003e   10. Revelatory earth: Adolphe Appia and the prospect of a modern sacred, \u003ci\u003eRoss Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Anagogical themes in Schwitters’ \u003ci\u003eKathedrale des erotischen Elends\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatthew Mindrup (University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Modern medievalisms: Curating the sacred at the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne (1932–9), \u003ci\u003eMaximilian Sternberg (University of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  13. Architecture, politics and the sacred in military monuments of Fascist Italy, Hannah Malone \u003ci\u003e(Max Planck Institute, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Atmosphere of the sacred: The awry in music, cinema, architecture, Michael Tawa \u003ci\u003e(University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738616443223,"sku":"9781350294356","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350294356.jpg?v=1720049665","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-architecture-and-the-sacred-9781350294356","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}