Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970 (eBook, ePUB)

Building the Kingdom
Redaktion: Jordan, Kate; Lepine, Ayla

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351043700
• Artikelnr.: 54169802

Autorenporträt

Kate Jordan is a lecturer in history and theory in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Westminster. She regularly lectures at the V&A and previously taught architectural history at Queen Mary University of London. She wrote her doctoral thesis (UCL) on the role of nuns in the design and construction of nineteenth and twentieth-century convents - a subject upon which she has published and given numerous conference papers. Her current field of research is Benedictine architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is a former member of the Education Sub-committee of The Society of Architectural Historians Great Britain and currently serves on the Twentieth Century Society's Casework Committee. Ayla Lepine is a Visiting Fellow in Art History at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on the Gothic Revival and modern medievalism. She is Arts Editor of the Marginalia Review of Books and a trustee of Art and Christianity Enquiry. She has published on Anglican monasticism, sacred visual culture, and the meanings of modern Gothic imagery in Architectural History, Visual Resources, Music and Modernism, The New Elizabethan Age, the Oxford History of Anglicanism, and the Church Times. She has co-edited Gothic Legacies: 400 Years of Tradition and Innovation in Art and Architecture (with Laura Cleaver, 2012) and Revival: Identities, Memories, Utopias (with Matt Lodder and Rosalind McKever, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

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
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