Retrofuturism. A Revisited Concept for Religious Architecture

The text deals with the much debated question of renewal in contemporary Orthodox Christian architecture, a question that accompanied a wave of more than twenty years of building new churches in existing cities and villages in Romania after the fall of communism in 1989. Should they follow the post...

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Main Author:	Augustin Ioan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	National Museum of the Romanian Peasant 2017-11-01
Series:	Martor
Subjects:	retrofuturism tradition sacred space cathedral
Online Access:	http://martor.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/archive/martor-22-2017/augustin-ioan/

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spelling	doaj-8340459d67c040448b818ae9c01371072021-04-02T18:27:22ZengNational Museum of the Romanian PeasantMartor1224-62711224-62712017-11-01225763Retrofuturism. A Revisited Concept for Religious ArchitectureAugustin Ioan0“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, RomaniaThe text deals with the much debated question of renewal in contemporary Orthodox Christian architecture, a question that accompanied a wave of more than twenty years of building new churches in existing cities and villages in Romania after the fall of communism in 1989. Should they follow the post Vatican II trend of aggiornamento in Catholic architecture and update the traditional and regional building models? The answer the text offers tentatively is retrofuturism, a radical way of renewing the language of sacred spaces within the core prescriptions of tradition. In the process, the author gives two examples of how this might work.http://martor.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/archive/martor-22-2017/augustin-ioan/retrofuturismtraditionsacred spacecathedral
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title	Retrofuturism. A Revisited Concept for Religious Architecture
title_short	Retrofuturism. A Revisited Concept for Religious Architecture
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publisher	National Museum of the Romanian Peasant
series	Martor
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publishDate	2017-11-01
description	The text deals with the much debated question of renewal in contemporary Orthodox Christian architecture, a question that accompanied a wave of more than twenty years of building new churches in existing cities and villages in Romania after the fall of communism in 1989. Should they follow the post Vatican II trend of aggiornamento in Catholic architecture and update the traditional and regional building models? The answer the text offers tentatively is retrofuturism, a radical way of renewing the language of sacred spaces within the core prescriptions of tradition. In the process, the author gives two examples of how this might work.
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Retrofuturism. A Revisited Concept for Religious Architecture

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