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MODERN CHURCH

ARCHITECTURE IN HUNGARY

Research plan on re-examination

of changing tendencies of the 20 -
th
century church architecture of

the Roman Catholic Church

Vukoszávlyev, Zorán – Baku, Eszter – Urbán, Erzsébet

BME Faculty of Architecture, Department of History of Architecture and Monument
Preservation, Budapest

Abstract
Scientific research of the sacral architectural heritage became accentuat-
ed in the international discourse of the last decades, and its significance
is more important in the correspondence of the architectural system of
the post-socialist countries. Historical analysis modulates the account of
these buildings not only in a national relation, but also in a comparison
with the international processions. The research examines the church ar-
chitecture with interdisciplinary approach, and its aim is giving a synthe-
sizing assess in an international context. It is emphasizes the necessity
of the comparison of the parallel architectural processes with a broader
international spread of the results – referring to special national charac-
teristics –, and it could also give new aspects to the current researches in
the international scientific medium.
Appearance, spread and tendency changings of the modern style by the
architecture of the Roman Catholic Church in the 20 century, which is
th
considered as its most valuable period, is worthy of analysing not only in
an international context (comparing to the parallel Italian and German
processes during the mid-war period, or just referring on the Belgian and
Scandinavian relations in the 1960-70s), but also in a national church ar-
chitectural correlation. Effects of the modern church architecture appear
by the Protestant Churches as well. Several architectural solutions could
be demonstrably drawn a parallel with the form experiments appearing in
the Catholic church architecture – mainly it holds true in respect of 1920–
45, but in a fewer number it appears in the architecture of the 1970s with
the renewing structural constructing and aesthetic changes. Elaboration
of these questions of the topic can support further scientific explorations,
which examine the processes of the national architecture of the 1960–70s.
Keywords
modernism · Hungarian · sacred · church architecture · national movement