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Adventure in architecture: building the new Saint John's by text and pictures by Whitney S. Stoddard; plans by Marcel Breuer is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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127 pages : 29 cm Here, in words and pictures, is the most exciting architectural story since the building of the great medieval churches in Europe, the grand plan on which a monastic community in Collegeville, Minnesota, and a world-famous architect -Marcel Breuer- have embarked. At the beginning, the Benedictine community of St. John's was considering only the addition of a small brick annex. But as the work progressed, the project evolved into a comprehensive, long-range plan for 19 new buildings. Each new building must be planned for the growth of the community in its several functions: as church, seminary, university, monastery and preparatory school. The Abbot summed up the feeling of the community in his letter to the 12 leading architects who were asked to submit plans for the buildings: "The Benedictine tradition at its best challenges us to think boldly and to cast our ideals in forms which will be valid for centuries to come, shaping them with all the genius of present-day materials and techniques." Functional and artistic success in such a building program depends upon the sensitivity of both patron and architect and the cooperative spirit that is engendered between the

Author

text and pictures by Whitney S. Stoddard; plans by Marcel Breuer

Publisher

New York: Longmans, Green

Published

1958

Language

EN

Subjects

Art, Arts