Retrofuturism. A Revisited Concept for Religious Architecture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6091048 |
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| Authors | Augustin Ioan (0000-0001-7271-3358, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Pages | 57-63 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Martor The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1224-6271 • E-ISSN: 2734-8350 |
| Publisher | Muzeul National al Taranului Roman (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.57225/martor.2017.22.04 |
| OpenAlex | W4389073686 |
| Language | EN |
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
Archaeology · Communism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Telecommunications · Engineering · History · Law · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Architecture
| Highly cited | No |
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