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.

This is a fascinating collection of essays about modern and contemporary religious architecture from a diverse range of viewpoints, including historical, critical, creative and conservation approaches. The parallels and interchanges between Ireland and Germany explored here are most illuminating. The scope of the book is impressive, including Irish missionary churches in Africa and contemporary architecture for Jewish and Islamic communities. Underscoring the whole collection there is, indeed, a consistent and thought-provoking theme of ‘community’, as the essays explore how architects and artists have sought to address the desires of religious and ethnic groups to make places for themselves within modern society.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroductionKathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin/Yale School of Architecture)Section One: Modernism in German and Irish Church DesignConservation and Radicalism in German Modern Church ArchitectureKai Krauskopf (Technical University Dresden)A Lifelong Affair: Liam McCormick and Imogen StuartCarole Pollard (Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland)Andrew Devane’s Dublin Churches: Catholic Architecture in Ireland in an Age of Tentative Radicalisation, 1963-1973Ellen Rowley (Dublin University College, Ireland)Ireland’s Tropical Modernism: Pearse McKenna and the Kiltegan Fathers in Nigeria, 1947-1966Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)Section Two: Designing Sacred Architecture in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Design and Use of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in MunichAmandus Sattler (Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects, Munich) with Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin/Yale School of Architecture)Incarnation: Bishop Edward Chapel CuddestonNiall McLaughlin (Niall McLaughlin Architects, London)Section Three: The Architecture of Minority FaithsThe Heritage of Dublin’s Jewish CommunityMelanie Brown (Royal Irish Academy of Music)Concrete Memory and Urban Matter — New Synagogues in GermanySandra O’Connor (Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland)Mosque Building in Germany between Neo-modernism and Neo-historicismChristian Welzbacher Section Four: The Contemporary Adaption of Churches in Germany and IrelandThe Reorientation of Modern Churches in Contemporary GermanyJörg Beste (Synergon, Cologne)New Life for Churches in IrelandJill Kerry (Ulster Historic Churches Trust)Index

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.

This is a fascinating collection of essays about modern and contemporary religious architecture from a diverse range of viewpoints, including historical, critical, creative and conservation approaches. The parallels and interchanges between Ireland and Germany explored here are most illuminating. The scope of the book is impressive, including Irish missionary churches in Africa and contemporary architecture for Jewish and Islamic communities. Underscoring the whole collection there is, indeed, a consistent and thought-provoking theme of ‘community’, as the essays explore how architects and artists have sought to address the desires of religious and ethnic groups to make places for themselves within modern society.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroductionKathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin/Yale School of Architecture)Section One: Modernism in German and Irish Church DesignConservation and Radicalism in German Modern Church ArchitectureKai Krauskopf (Technical University Dresden)A Lifelong Affair: Liam McCormick and Imogen StuartCarole Pollard (Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland)Andrew Devane’s Dublin Churches: Catholic Architecture in Ireland in an Age of Tentative Radicalisation, 1963-1973Ellen Rowley (Dublin University College, Ireland)Ireland’s Tropical Modernism: Pearse McKenna and the Kiltegan Fathers in Nigeria, 1947-1966Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)Section Two: Designing Sacred Architecture in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Design and Use of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in MunichAmandus Sattler (Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects, Munich) with Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin/Yale School of Architecture)Incarnation: Bishop Edward Chapel CuddestonNiall McLaughlin (Niall McLaughlin Architects, London)Section Three: The Architecture of Minority FaithsThe Heritage of Dublin’s Jewish CommunityMelanie Brown (Royal Irish Academy of Music)Concrete Memory and Urban Matter — New Synagogues in GermanySandra O’Connor (Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland)Mosque Building in Germany between Neo-modernism and Neo-historicismChristian Welzbacher Section Four: The Contemporary Adaption of Churches in Germany and IrelandThe Reorientation of Modern Churches in Contemporary GermanyJörg Beste (Synergon, Cologne)New Life for Churches in IrelandJill Kerry (Ulster Historic Churches Trust)Index

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.

This is a fascinating collection of essays about modern and contemporary religious architecture from a diverse range of viewpoints, including historical, critical, creative and conservation approaches. The parallels and interchanges between Ireland and Germany explored here are most illuminating. The scope of the book is impressive, including Irish missionary churches in Africa and contemporary architecture for Jewish and Islamic communities. Underscoring the whole collection there is, indeed, a consistent and thought-provoking theme of ‘community’, as the essays explore how architects and artists have sought to address the desires of religious and ethnic groups to make places for themselves within modern society.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroductionKathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin/Yale School of Architecture)Section One: Modernism in German and Irish Church DesignConservation and Radicalism in German Modern Church ArchitectureKai Krauskopf (Technical University Dresden)A Lifelong Affair: Liam McCormick and Imogen StuartCarole Pollard (Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland)Andrew Devane’s Dublin Churches: Catholic Architecture in Ireland in an Age of Tentative Radicalisation, 1963-1973Ellen Rowley (Dublin University College, Ireland)Ireland’s Tropical Modernism: Pearse McKenna and the Kiltegan Fathers in Nigeria, 1947-1966Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)Section Two: Designing Sacred Architecture in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Design and Use of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in MunichAmandus Sattler (Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects, Munich) with Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin/Yale School of Architecture)Incarnation: Bishop Edward Chapel CuddestonNiall McLaughlin (Niall McLaughlin Architects, London)Section Three: The Architecture of Minority FaithsThe Heritage of Dublin’s Jewish CommunityMelanie Brown (Royal Irish Academy of Music)Concrete Memory and Urban Matter — New Synagogues in GermanySandra O’Connor (Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland)Mosque Building in Germany between Neo-modernism and Neo-historicismChristian Welzbacher Section Four: The Contemporary Adaption of Churches in Germany and IrelandThe Reorientation of Modern Churches in Contemporary GermanyJörg Beste (Synergon, Cologne)New Life for Churches in IrelandJill Kerry (Ulster Historic Churches Trust)Index