Heaven on Earth:   Swedenborgian Correspondences in the Plan of Chicago

Kristen Schaffer

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6290

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Kristen Schaffer School of Architecture at North Carolina State University
Architectural and urban historian, an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at North Carolina State University, and currently co-editor of the North Carolina section of Archipedia, the website sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians. Her area of expertise is late-nineteenth and early twentieth century American architecture and urban development. She is an internationally recognized expert on Daniel H. Burnham and the 1909 Plan of Chicago, author of Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect and Planner and articles on his work. Dr. Schaffer has given lectures at the National Building Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee, the Swedenborg Foundation and the Swedenborg Library, as well as at universities, conferences, and professional societies in the U.S., Germany, and Italy. She has been interviewed for radio, television, and independent documentaries, and in 2009 was a juror for the Burnham Memorial Competition sponsored by The American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter. Dr. Schaffer earned a B.A. at the State University of New York at Buffalo; an M.A. and Ph.D. at Cornell University. Before coming to North Carolina State University, she taught at Syracuse University, Syracuse, new York. In her distant past, she worked for an architectural and engineering firm and a healthcare planning agency.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6290

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Burnham, Piano di Chicago, Swedenborg, Nuova Gerusalemme, Corrispondenza, Usi

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Daniel Hudson Burnham, l’architetto e urbanista di Chicago, è conosciuto per il suo lavoro sull’edificio alto per uffici americano; per la costruzione della World’s Columbian Exposition del 1893; e per i suoi piani urbanistici per Washington, Cleveland, San Francisco e Chicago. È anche ricordato per la citazione “Non fate piani piccoli.” Ciò per cui non è ricordato è la sua fede swedenborgiana, né come abbia influenzato il suo lavoro. Emanuel Swedenborg era uno scienziato svedese e ingegnere che, a partire dalla metà degli anni ‘30 del 1700, ha subito un risveglio spirituale. Il focus del suo lavoro è cambiato per gli aspetti mistici dell’esperienza umana. Egli credeva che tutte le chiese cristiane fossero morte ed avessero bisogno di una rivitalizzazione e che la chiave per essa si trovasse in una nuova interpretazione delle Scritture. I suoi seguaci fondarono la Chiesa della Nuova Gerusalemme, a volte indicata come Chiesa Nuova o la Chiesa Swedenborgiana.

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William Ross Woofenden compiler, “Glossary of Swedenborgian Terms” in Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision, Robin Larsen, ed., Swedenborg Foundation, Inc., New York, 1988

Louis H. Sullivan, The Autobiography of an Idea, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1956 [1924]

Narciso G. Menocal, Architecture as Nature: The Transcendentalist Idea of Louis Sullivan, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1981

William E. Parsons, “Burnham as a Pioneer in City Planning,” The Architectural Record, July 1915, XXXVIII

Joan E. Draper, Edward H. Bennett: Architect & City Planner, 1874-1954, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1982

Robert Avens, “The Subtle Realm: Corbin, Sufism, and Swedenborg,” excerpted and compiled by Kate Davis, in Robin Larsen, et al., eds., Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision, Swedenborg Foundation, Inc., New York, 1988

Arthur Sherburne Hardy, “Last Impressions,” The Cosmopolitan Magazine, December 1893, XVI

Thomas A. Janvier, “The Chicago Legacy,” The Cosmopolitan Magazine, December 1893, XVI

Daniel H. Burnham & Edward H. Bennett, Plan of Chicago, The Commercial Club, Chicago, 1909

Emanuel Swedenborg, Divine Providence, William Frederic Wunsch, trans., Swedenborg Foundation, New York

Emanuel Swedenborg, Divine Love and Wisdom, George F. Dole, trans., Swedenborg Foundation, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1985

Il Cielo sulla Terra: le Corrispondenze di Swedenborg nel Piano di Chicago

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