Sanctuary:

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ISBN: 9781933128870

ISBN-10: 1933128879

ISBN-13: 9781933128870

Edition: 2009

Authors: Brian Dillon

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This fictional work about the construction and decay of a late modernist building can also be read as an essay on our contemporary unease with modernism in general. Author Brian Dillon, UK editor of Cabinet magazine, based it on research into St. Peter's Seminary, a college complex commissioned by the Catholic Church in the 1950s, completed in 1968, and abandoned by 1980. On the outskirts of Glasgow - itself a city with a vexed relationship to Le Corbusier-esque modernism - the building is rich with histories: of its architects, its residing student priests, the drug addicts it once housed and treated, and the local teenagers for whom it is a kind of Gothic recreation center. This book…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Sternber Pr
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 90
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English