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Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture
Hardcover
$70.00
By Ivica Brnic (Text by), Jonathan Meades (Text by), Jamie McGregor Smith (Text by), Jamie McGregor Smith. (Photographer)
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Traditional Christian dogma meets 20th-century sensibilities in modernist church spaces across Europe
Spurred on by the modernizing impulses of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, the Catholic Church searched for an appropriate architectural language that showed its relevance to the modern world. Sacred Modernity documents this dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across postwar Europe. Among these structures, some exude a joyful antagonism, while others emanate a cold m...