On 19 September 2019 the Goethe-Institut Irland, UCD Humanities Institute and the MA Design History and Material Culture at the National College of Art and Design will launch the book "Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond. Influence, Process and Afterlife since 1945", edited by Lisa Godson and Kathleen James-Chakraborty.
This collection of essays by leading architectural historians set German and Irish church, synagogue and mosque architecture side by side over the last century and offers new insights into designers of all three types of sacred buildings, working at home and abroad. It offers new scholarship on the 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. With a focus on influence and processes, alongside conservationists and historians including Ellen Rowley and Kathleen James-Chakraborty, it features critical insights by the designers of some of the most celebrated contemporary sacred buildings, including Niall McLaughlin who writes on his multiple award-winning Bishop Edward King Chapel and Amandus Sattler, architect of the innovative Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Munich.
The book will be launched by Thomas Lier, Director of Goethe-Institut Irland and Professor Hugh Campbell, Dean of Architecture at UCD.
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Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland
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