Visions of the Future by Matthew Rampley - 9780271099392

Visions of the FutureModern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 19181939\nAuthor(s): Matthew Rampley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271099392, 978-0271099392\nSynopsis\nSome of the most striking examples of modernist architecture are churches, yet they have seldom been subject to extended critical analysis. In this book, Matthew Rampley provides just such an analysis, focusing on the Catholic Church in interwar Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.\n\nA powerful institution in the Habsburg Empire, the Catholic Church continued to be a central social, political, and cultural agent after 1918, working in alliance with political parties and national governments to promote visions of a new national culture. As a result, church building took on an important ideological and political function. Rampleys study is set against the backdrop of two interrelated is.