Many people reject brutalism immediately. They see it as cold, raw, outdated. In fact, in the 1980s, much of the world declared war on brutalism, and some of its most interesting examples simply disappeared. However, brutalism has not only withstood its harshest critics, but has also found a privileged place among European churches. Photographer Jamie McGregor Smith published his five-year journey in the book «Sacred Modernity - The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture», and recently shared his favorite churches…
Featuring a total of 139 images from dozens of churches, the book is a true delight for architecture and photography lovers. With more than 200 pages, «Sacred Modernity» documents the dramatic turn that ecclesiastical architecture took during the post-war period in Europe. The author indicates that in the early 1960s, the Catholic Church decided to seek an «architectural language» that would teach its relevance within the modern world, and found the answer in brutalism, or in the words of McGregor Smith, the «atheist architect»…
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