Polish Postmodern sacred architecture
in the space of housing estates
Polish Postmodern sacred architecture
in the space of housing estates
Author(s): Ewa Węcławowicz-Gyurkovich, Elżbieta Węcławowicz-Bilska, Olha KryvoruchkoSubject(s): Architecture, History of Church(es)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Polish sacred architecture; postmodernism; housing estates;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issues of the formation and functioning of monumental postmodern churches as strong forms in the space of housing estates from the 1970s and 1980s. The aim of the research presented in the article is to diagnose the needs of local communities regarding the presence of the church in the context of its form, in the living environment. The research was carried out on the basis of formal and spatial experiments representative of the Polish religious architecture of those years. Among the research methods, the comparative analysis of examples dominates, next to the literature query and in situ research. Three sites were analyzed: in Warsaw, Wadowice and Wrocław.
Journal: Środowisko mieszkaniowe
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 40
- Page Range: 4-17
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English, Polish