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American Unitarian Churches - Architecture of a Democratic Religion (Paperback)
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American Unitarian Churches - Architecture of a Democratic Religion (Paperback)
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The Unitarian religious tradition was a product of the same
eighteenth-century democratic ideals that fueled the American
Revolution and informed the founding of the United States. Its
liberal humanistic principles influenced institutions such as
Harvard University and philosophical movements like
Transcendentalism. Yet, its role in the history of American
architecture is little known and studied. In American Unitarian
Churches, Ann Marie Borys argues that the progressive values and
identity of the Unitarian religion are intimately intertwined with
ideals of American democracy and visibly expressed in the
architecture of its churches. Over time, church architecture has
continued to evolve in response to developments within the faith,
and many contemporary projects are built to serve religious,
practical, and civic functions simultaneously. Focusing primarily
on churches of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including
Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple and Louis Kahn's First Unitarian
Church, Borys explores building histories, biographies of leaders,
and broader sociohistorical contexts. As this essential study makes
clear, to examine Unitarianism through its churches is to see
American architecture anew, and to find an authentic architectural
expression of American democratic identity.
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