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    Utopian Architecture Beyond the Concrete

    The Transcendental and the Political Dimension of Laboratories and Religious Spaces

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    Author(s)
    Preidel, Christian
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    When the Bell Telephone Company built their new research facility in 1957, they did not opt for a functional box but for a cathedral of glass, steel, and concrete, set in a meticulously landscaped park. What can we learn from this striking corporate architecture through which architect Eero Saarinen expressed that man had mastered nature and would solve all future problems? What can churches learn, which have also built striking concrete structures throughout the 1960s – buildings whose roofs are now leaking and whose heating systems are no longer operational? Christian Preidel argues that building today is not a symphony in glass and concrete but a social endeavour where people (and material) come together.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95947
    Keywords
    Architecture; Religion; Computer Industry; Space; Sociology of Religion; Religious Studies; Urban Studies
    DOI
    10.14361/9783839473580
    ISBN
    9783839473580, 9783837673586, 9783839473580
    Publisher
    transcript Verlag
    Publisher website
    https://www.transcript-verlag.de/
    Publication date and place
    2024
    Imprint
    transcript Verlag
    Series
    Religionswissenschaft, 43
    Classification
    Social mobility
    Religion: general
    Urban communities
    Pages
    220
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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