Suburban Church - Modernism and Community in Postwar America

Klappentext Gretchen Buggeln holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts at Valparaiso University. She is author of Temples of Grace: The Material Transformation of Connecticut’s Churches! 1790–1840. Zusammenfassung After World War II! America's religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest! Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a vision of how modernist churches might help reinvig

Product details

• Authors: Gretchen Buggeln
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780816694952
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-9495-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture; Architecture, Landscape and Am; Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture; Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture