Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond

Modernity and religion are not mutually exclusive. Setting German and Irish church, synagogue and mosque architecture side by side over the last century highlights the place for the celebration of the new within faiths whose appeal lies in part in the stability of belief they offer across time. Inspired by radically modern German churches of the 1920s and 1930s, this volume offers new insights into designers of all three types of sacred buildings, working at home and abroad. It offers new scholarship on the unknown 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, 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.

Kathleen James-Chakraborty is Professor of Art History, University College Dublin School of Art History and Cultural Policy, Ireland.
Lisa Godson is Lecturer in Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Ireland.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin/Yale School of Architecture)
Section One: Modernism in German and Irish Church Design
Conservation and Radicalism in German Modern Church Architecture
Kai Krauskopf (Technical University Dresden)
A Lifelong Affair: Liam McCormick and Imogen Stuart
Carole Pollard (Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland)
Andrew Devane's Dublin Churches: Catholic Architecture in Ireland in an Age of Tentative Radicalisation, 1963-1973
Ellen Rowley (Dublin University College, Ireland)
Ireland's Tropical Modernism: Pearse McKenna and the Kiltegan Fathers in Nigeria, 1947-1966
Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)
Section Two: Designing Sacred Architecture in the Twenty-First Century
The Design and Use of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Munich
Amandus Sattler (Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects, Munich) with Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin/Yale School of Architecture)
Incarnation: Bishop Edward Chapel Cuddeston
Niall McLaughlin (Niall McLaughlin Architects, London)
Section Three: The Architecture of Minority Faiths
The Heritage of Dublin's Jewish Community
Melanie Brown (Royal Irish Academy of Music)
Concrete Memory and Urban Matter - New Synagogues in Germany
Sandra O'Connor (Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland)
Mosque Building in Germany between Neo-modernism and Neo-historicism
Christian Welzbacher

Section Four: The Contemporary Adaption of Churches in Germany and Ireland
The Reorientation of Modern Churches in Contemporary Germany
Jörg Beste (Synergon, Cologne)
New Life for Churches in Ireland
Jill Kerry (Ulster Historic Churches Trust)
Index