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<p>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.</p>
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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.

Polish Postmodern sacred architecture in the space of housing estates

Środowisko Mieszkaniowe/Housing Environment

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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...

Polish Postmodern sacred architecture in the space of housing estates

Published Online: Oct 31, 2022

Page range: 4 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700sm.22.018.17001

Keywords
Polish sacred architecture, postmodernism, housing estates

© 2022 Ewa Węcławowicz-Gyurkovich et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Polish Postmodern sacred architecture in the space of housing estates

Published Online: Oct 31, 2022

Page range: 4 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700sm.22.018.17001

KeywordsPolish sacred architecture, postmodernism, housing estates

© 2022 Ewa Węcławowicz-Gyurkovich et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Polish sacred architecture, postmodernism, housing estates