Description Modernity and religion are not mutually exclusive.
Lisa Godson is Lecturer in Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Ireland..
About the author Kathleen James-Chakraborty is Professor of Art History, University College Dublin School of Art History and Cultural Policy, Ireland.
With a focus on Influence and processes, alongside conservationists and historians, it features critical insights by the designers of some of the most celebrated contemporary sacred buildings, including Niall Mc Laughlin who writes on his multiple award-winning Bishop Edward King Chapel and Amandus Sattler, architect of the innovative Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Munich.
It offers new scholarship on the unknown phenomenon of mid-century ecclesiastical Architecture in sub-Saharan Africa by Irish designers; a critical appraisal of the overlooked Frank Lloyd Wright-trained Andrew Devane and an analysis of accommodating difficult pasts and challenging futures with contemporary synagogue and mosque Architecture in Germany.
Inspired by radically Modern German churches of the 1920s and 1930s, this volume offers new insights into designers of all three types of sacred buildings, working at home and abroad.
Setting German and Irish church, synagogue and mosque Architecture side by side over the last century highlights the place for the celebration of the new within faiths whose appeal lies in part in the stability of belief they offer across time.
Description Modernity and religion are not mutually exclusive
