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- W2756851071 abstract "Victoria M. Young Saint John's Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014, 216 pp., 17 color and 80 b/w illus. $34.95, ISBN 9780816676163Marcel Breuer's Saint John's Abbey Church in Collegeville, Minnesota, is one of the few churches in the United States to have merited a previous monograph—Whitney Stoddard's Adventure in Architecture: Building the New St. John's , written several years before the church's dedication in 1961.1 That Stoddard, a medievalist, was so fascinated with this decidedly modernist landmark suggests much about the building's positioning at the time. Victoria M. Young's study of the church's history and its design now helps us to understand fully why it was so important to its contemporaries. Her own long relationship with the abbey (Young is a professor of architectural history at the nearby University of St. Thomas) shows in her sensitive descriptions of Breuer's clients, the monks, and her stress on the dynamic relationship between the two, which, she argues, produced a masterpiece neither could have been responsible for alone. She deftly balances architectural history and analysis with an examination of the theology and history of the liturgical movement, creating a multidimensional work that can be read with profit by religious as well as architectural historians.Young's first two chapters set Breuer's commissioning in the context of Benedictine monasticism, the twentieth-century liturgical movement, and midcentury modernist architecture. The Benedictine order, founded in the sixth century AD, has always been known for its innovative architecture and comprehensive community planning. A monastic complex includes a church, housing, spaces for recreation and prayer, and work buildings ranging from barns to schoolrooms. Saint John's is the largest Benedictine foundation in the United States, established (along …" @default.
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- W2756851071 title "Review: Saint John's Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space, by Victoria M. Young" @default.
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