Proctor, Robert, 1973- author.

Building the modern church : Roman Catholic Church architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975 / Robert Proctor, Glasgow School of Art, UK.

Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2014]

xxiv, 371 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship, and by a growing acceptance of modern art and architecture, architects designed radical new forms of church building in a campaign of new buildings for new urban contexts.0A focussed study of mid-twentieth century church architecture, Building the Modern Church considers how architects and clergy constructed the image and reality of the Church as an institution through its buildings. The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. The role of Catholic clergy as patrons of modern architecture and art and the changing attitudes of the Church and its architects to modernity are examined, explaining how different strands of post-war architecture were adopted in the field of ecclesiastical buildings. The church building#x92;s social role in defining communities through rituals and symbols is also considered, together with the relationships between churches and modernist urban planning in new towns and suburbs. Case studies analysed in detail include significant buildings and architects that have remained little known until now.

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Katholische Kirche
Church architecture Great Britain History 20th century.
Catholic church buildings Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture chrétienne Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Églises catholiques Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Catholic church buildings.
Church architecture.
Kirchenbau
Moderne
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

History.

Ashgate studies in architecture series.

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Cote: BIB 233614
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