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Article: Ecclesiastical lite.(Contemporary Church Architecture)(Book review)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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CONTEMPORARY CHURCH ARCHITECTURE
By Edwin Heathcote and Laura Moffatt. Chichester: John Wiley 2007. [pounds sterling]45
Gather 28 of the most attractive looking recent churches by architectural names from across the world, print them up lavishly in colour with a couple of line drawings each, commission a couple of journalists to write a general history of the modern church and a rash of descriptive critiques, and hey presto it sells like hot cakes. That seems to have been the publisher's idea. The building presentations are a bit shorter than one would find in AR, with fewer drawings and less description/critique, but they hold up fairly well, and Laura ...