Temples for a modern god : religious architecture in postwar America
Price, Jay M.Author
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2013.
After World War II, Americans constructed an unprecedented number of synagogues, churches, cathedrals, chapels, and other structures. This book provides a study of American religious architecture in the postwar period, and it reveals the diverse and complicated set of issues that emerged just as one of the nation's biggest building booms unfolded.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
After World War II, Americans constructed an unprecedented number of synagogues, churches, cathedrals, chapels, and other structures. This book provides a study of American religious architecture in the postwar period, and it reveals the diverse and complicated set of issues that emerged just as one of the nation's biggest building booms unfolded.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).
Introduction -- Ch. 1. The search for a better church building -- Ch. 2. The postwar house of worship -- Ch. 3. Postwar religious building: a negotiated -- Ch. 4. Making a modern church still look like a church -- Ch. 5. Let's stop building cathedrals -- Conclusion: an unappreciated legacy.
Church architecture
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
Architecture