2025/04/16 by Kuijpers, Chiara, Van Der Meulen, Femke, Sterken, Sven +1
#Building Actors #Construction History #Innovative Building Materials #Periodicals #Postwar Churches
paper · doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0075/19654
This article examines the representation of post-war churches in Belgian and French periodicals during the 1950s and 1960s: Art d’Eglise, Art Chrétien, La Maison, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, La Technique des Travaux and Techniques etArchitecture. By unravelling how the architectural, liturgical, and material dimension of post-war churches tied together in the discourse on religious architecture, this article will investigate the dual meaning of the ‘constructed’ image throughout these publications. We both look at the construction of the modern church made visible through the lens of these issues, as well as at the actors that played a vital role in the actual construction of the church. Hence, this article will deconstruct the image of the modern church by looking into the complexity of this large building campaign to comprehend how the material dimension of post-war churches contributed to shaping this image of religious modernity.