Authors on Architecture: Geva on Modern American Synagogues
SAH/SCC Zoom Program
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Join
author Anat M. Geva, PhD, Assoc. AIA, as she shares her new book, The
Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s (Texas A&M Press,
2023).
In the aftermath of World War II,
the United States experienced a rapid expansion of church and synagogue
construction as part of a larger “religious boom.” The synagogues built in that
era illustrate how their designs pushed the envelope in aesthetics and
construction. The design of the synagogues departed from traditional concepts,
embraced modernism and innovations in building technology, and evolved beyond
the formal/rational style of early 1950s modern architecture to more of an
expressionistic design. The latter resulted in abstraction of architectural
forms and details, and the inclusion of Jewish art in the new synagogues.
Geva is a registered architect in
Israel and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Texas A&M University where
she taught design, historic preservation, and the history of sacred
architecture and of building technology. She is the author of Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Sacred Architecture: Faith, Form, and Building Technology (Routledge,
2011), Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture (Routledge,
2018), coauthor of Israel as a Modern Architectural Experimental Lab, 1948-1978
(Intellect Books, 2020), and editor of Water and Sacred Architecture (Routledge,
2023).
Geva
on Modern Synagogues—Sunday, November 12, 2023; 1-2:30 PM PST; $5; go to www.sahscc.org and pay via paypal; Zoom connection information sent upon registration.
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