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.
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