Architecture, Religion, and the Forms of Nature in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Chicago
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12901680 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Isaiah Ellis (0000-0003-3646-183X, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2021 |
| Volumen | 15 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 53-81 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2021-03-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915 |
| Editorial | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jsrnc.39582 |
| OpenAlex | W3152061299 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 28 |
The commercial architectural style that emerged in Chicago in the late nineteenth-century United States constituted a material gathering point for that century’s masculinities, religious histories, and conceptions of nature. This was especially true in the case of Louis Henri Sullivan (1856–1924), an inmuential lgure in crafting the aesthetic of this ‘Chicago School’ of architectural practice. Drawing on transcendentalist literature and recent innovations in architectural design, Sullivan outlined an ‘organic’ theory of architecture made famous in his pithy expression: form follows function. His design and theorization of free-standing structures offered gendered forms as the constitutive vocabulary of American architecture, with those very forms—not just the skyscraper but the free-standing structure writ-large—governing the relation of nature and its spirit to the masculinized landscape of urban commercial expansion. In Sullivan’s work, the gendered body became the vehicle for natural laws, both material and divine
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Architectural style · Architectural theory · Art · Expression (computer science · Function (biology · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Visual arts · Vocabulary · Writ · Art, Politics, and Modernism · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Architecture
American Renaissance
The Business Turn in American Religious History
Church in the Wild
Forms
The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture
Space, Time, and Perversion
Louis H. Sullivan’s Chicago
The Space between the Studs
The Transcendentalists
Reading Tree in Nature’s Nation
Wanamaker’s Temple
A 'Feminine' Building? Relations Between Gender Ideology and Aesthetic Ideology in Turn-of-the-Century America
A Nation of Steel
What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work
Manliness and Civilization
Technologies, Texts and Affordances
| Citas por año | 0,5 |
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| Intervalo de citas | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Altamente citado | No |