{"product_id":"66196-sacred-modernity","title":"Sacred Modernity","description":"Sacred Modernity compiles church buildings of European post-war modernism. Spurred by the reform impulses of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, this was a time of searching for an architectural idiom that was meant to express the Catholic Church's self-understanding as part of modernity. The result is a tense antagonism between cool minimalism and new floor plans that placed the congregation itself at the center. Bold, unprecedented, and provocative for their time, this aesthetic between Brutalism and Structural Expressionism still sparks fierce debates between modernists and traditionalists today.\u003cbr\u003eHalf a century later, Jamie McGregor Smith's photographic study shows that these future visions from the past have lost none of their visionary power and, with their futuristic, unusual forms, still belong to the most unique architectural sculptures in public space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJAMIE McGREGOR SMITH (*1982, Weymouth, UK) studied photography at Staffordshire University and began his documentary work, inspired by the American New Topographics movement, with reports on the defunct pottery industry in the British Midlands, the collapse of the automotive industry in Detroit, and the abandoned Olympic stadiums in Athens. His photos have been published in the New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, Wallpaper*, Architectural Digest, and Vanity Fair, among others.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45659826716936,"sku":"9783775756464","price":54.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775756464_c6d43ea1-9eda-4b0b-93a2-49d70e35651c.jpg?v=1744285857","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/66196-sacred-modernity","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}