Five reflections on contemporary religious architecture

Abstract

I would like briefly to point out some ideas -five, in particular- about contemporary religious architecture. The few images that I have brought to support this minimal intervention are of an unbuilt architecture: the Coventry Anglican Cathedral project, of which authors Alison and Peter Smithson (1950/51) are authors. Some architects, whose work and, above all, whose thought are central to the development of architecture in the second half of the 20th century, and with whom the historiography of modern architecture, by the way, also has a debt, in addition to religious architecture. In these images of the unbuilt cathedral of Coventry are collected in a very direct and very intense - as is characteristic in the work of these two British architects - these issues that, I understand, are key in the relationship of modern and contemporary architecture with religious architecture.