TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geva, Anat Ed.
TI  - Modernism and American mid-20th century sacred architecture 
SN  - 9781138062818
U1  - 726 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  -  
N1  - Contents
List of figures  ix
List of contributors   xvii
Acknowledgments  xx	
Introduction: the sacred space  1
Anat Geva
PART I
Modernists and sacred architecture   13
1 Minimal ritual: Mies van der Rohe's Chapel of St. Savior, 1952
Ross Anderson   15
2 Religious freedom and architectural ambition at Vassar College,
1945-54    31
Lindsay Cook
3 Tuskegee University's second chapel: a departure and a
Continuation   51
Arthur J. Clement and Roderick D. Fluker
PART II
The parabola, concrete, and modern sacred architecture  71
4 Bold modern form: the parabola and St. Louis's sacred buildings
Mary Reid Brunstrom    73
5 The structural modeling and design of St. Mary's Cathedral,
San Francisco, 1963-71 93   
Gabriele Neri
6 Charles Haertling's St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, Northglenn,
Colorado, 1963-64 113
Heather Seniff
7 A monumental absence: Paul Rudolph's Christian Science Building,
1965 (demolished 1986) 132
Scott Murray
PART Ill
Denominations, identity, and modern sacred architecture 153
8 Creating sacred spaces in the suburbs: Roman Catholic architecture
in post-war Los Angeles, 1948-76 155
Michael J. Gibson
9 Critiquing modernism: the unorthodox Orthodox, 1950s-60s 175
Dean G. Lampros
10 ]. Eugene Wukasch and mid-century Lutheran architecture
in Texas, 1950-70 194
jason john Paul Haskins
11 The nexus between Lithuanian vernacular and American modernism 214
Milda B. Richardson
PART IV
Modern interiors and liturgical fittings 233
12 Seeing, not knowing: symbolism, art, and "opticalism" in
mid-century American religious architecture 235
jeremy Kargon
13 The sanctuary wall: Unitarian rationalism illuminated 255
Ann Marie Borys
14 Tradition and transcendence: Eero Saarinen's MIT Chapel and
the nondenominational ideal 275
joseph M. Siry
Epilogue 296
Phillip James Tabb
Index  304


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