West German post-war churches . . .
It's astonishing how Cold War aesthetics shaped the spiritual, too
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The 'Kreuzkirche' in Lübeck designed by Friedhelm Grundmann and Otto E. Rehder (1969-71)
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The 'Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche' in Berlin designed by Fehling & Gogel (1958-64)
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And this church by Hans Schilling in Wesel is dedicated 'Zu den Heiligen Engeln' (1958), to the Holy Angels...
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Just to be clear: I find them all fascinating and architecturally intriguing
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What do you mean with "cold war aesthetics"? That it looks like a bunker or a fortress?
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Yes, that too. . . More generally, I would say the answer to the fear of absolute disaster, therefore the creation of functional spaces for the protection (also metaphorically) of the "free world" from the collective incineration and extinction
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cool! do you know the wotruba church in Vienna, or the ones in Le Havre and Royan in France?
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