TY - JOUR AU1 - Geiser, Reto AB - history, their narratives and argu- Sacred Architecture (Yale School of existed in the first half of the twen - ments regarding the central role of Architecture and Yale University tieth century—do consider the the religious building and its impact Press, 2010) and is the author of objects of investigation that the on these two distinct built envi- Auguste Perret (in English and French Swiss art historian and architecture ronments are strikingly divergent. editions, Phaidon Press, 2001). critic staged in his highly subjective Grubiak’s narrative describes the “contribution to anonymous his- ways in which chapels on American tory.” At the time, however, the book campuses “attempted to broker a was an unusual attempt to examine new role for religion” (Grubiak, 3) as artifacts of mass culture and the the religious identities and commit- repercussions of industrialization ments of their institutions receded, on everyday life as integral parts of which nevertheless resulted in their modernization. Despite critical (if “ultimate inability to keep religion as not outright negative) reviews at the a core component of the university date of its original publication, this mission” (Grubiak, 3). Price, on the social history of technology based other hand, documents a moment in on a TI - Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History JF - Journal of Architectural Education DO - 10.1080/10464883.2015.989065 DA - 2015-01-02 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/mechanization-takes-command-a-contribution-to-anonymous-history-0M0lPQcwlP SP - 113 EP - 115 VL - 69 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -