Modern Architecture and Religious Communities 1860-1970: Building the Kingdom

Ayla Lepine (2012–2013 Fellow)

Modern Architecture and Religious Communities 1860-1970: Building the Kingdom

Routledge, 2018

Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s. This book is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this genre of architecture and its associated visual culture and communal experience. Examples range from Nuns’ holy spaces celebrating the life of St Theresa of Lisieux to utopian American desert communities and their reliance on the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin.