Constructing Reconstructionism - http://www.adatshalom.net/constructing.html
An illustrated, scholarly article by Laura Hartman of the University of Virginia, on the relationship of theology and architecture at the Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue in Bethesda, Maryland, built in 1999-2001 to the designs of Robert Schwartz and Keith Peoples. |
Images of the B'nai Amoona Synagogue - http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/missouri/stlouis/temple/mendelsohn.html
Photographs and text on the first US synagogue designed by modernist synagogue architect Eric Mendelsohn. |
Star in the East - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3575/1273_213/99215196/p1/article.jhtml
Reprinted article from "Architectural Review" about the post-Holocaust Renaissance in German synagogue architecture. |
Temple Sinai - http://sinairochester.org/aboutus/tour/
This synagogue in Rochester, New York, has a remarkable tentlike sanctuary with glass wall and ceiling, designed by James Johnson. Photographs, description and explanation of the symbolism from the official site. |