Volume 50, Number 12 · July 17, 2003
God's Houses Part II
By Alison Lurie
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation
by Terryl N. Kinder
Eerdmans/Cistercian Publications, 406 pp., $70.00
America's Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community
by Marilyn J. Chiat
Wiley, 465 pp., $34.95 (paper)
Houses of God: Region, Religion, and Architecture in the United States
by Peter W. Williams
University of Illinois Press, 321 pp., $34.95; $24.95 (paper)
Architecture for the Gods
by Michael J. Crosbie
Watson-Guptill, 192 pp., $60.00; $35.00 (paper)
Sacred Architecture
by Caroline Humphrey and Piers Vitebsky
Little, Brown, 182 pp., $15.95
Re-Pitching the Tent: Reordering the Church Building for Worship and Mission
by Richard Giles
Liturgical Press, 255 pp., $29.95 (paper)
Building from Belief: Advance, Retreat, and Compromise in the Remaking of Catholic Church Architecture
by Michael E. DeSanctis
Liturgical Press, 116 pp., $19.95
Ugly as Sin: Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Spaces—and How We Can Change Them Back Again
by Michael S. Rose
Sophia Institute Press, 237 pp., $24.95
When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America
by Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Oxford University Press, 310 pp., $45.00
The New Religious Image of Urban America: The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center
by Ira G. Zepp Jr
University Press of Colorado, 212 pp., $27.50 (paper)
Modern architecture was slow in moving into religious buildings, and the first important modernist churches only appeared in Europe and South America in the 1920s and 1930s. Some of them were designed by the most famous architects of the time, including Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier, and were remarkably innovative. Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamps in eastern France, for instance, looks from some angles like a nun's headdress.
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