Requirements, Qualities and Solutions: Remodelling Liturgical Spaces after Vatican II in Hungary

Erzsébet Urbán

doi:10.17979/aarc.2019.6.0.6233

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Erzsébet Urbán BME-Faculty of Architecture (Budapest https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-3851

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https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2019.6.0.6233

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Hungary, Vatican II, theory vs practice, architectural methodology, Venice Charter

Abstract

After the Second World War the ecclesiastical property was drastically reduced in Hungary. However, Vatican II gave an intense motivation and impulse to the spiritual-psychical revival for the communities and by this time, the preservation of the religious heritage got some statal, professional attention too. The restoration or reconstruction works were often linked with the acute interior transformations according to Vatican II. Although the Hungarian publication and interpretation of the reforms were relatively slow, still a few essential informative discussions were born. The Venice Charter (1964) also had a significant effect on the monument preservation methodology in this period. Analysing the theoretical approach of the Vatican II Constitution and Instruction a close parallelism can be identified with the architectural aspects of the Venice Charter: respect the old parts with the obviously distinguishable, new supplements, and create modern artworks with high artistic quality. The end of the paper cites some brief case studies to present the practical implementation of the directives.

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Erzsébet Urbán, BME-Faculty of Architecture (Budapest

Ph.D. candidate – BME, Faculty of Architecture, Department of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation During the graduate course I mainly engaged in examining the socialist realism in Hungary. This is the reason why I chose the period of socialism as my research field in the doctoral school. The most interesting architectural questions for me come from the relationship of the state and church, thus I observe different church architectural problems 1945–1989. I consider it important to bring the theoretical and practical aspects of the architecture closer to each other, so I started a monument protection specialist part-time education in 2016. I also engaged in researching the contemporary usage, transformation or, in certain cases, new utilization of the post-war ecclesiastical architectural works. At the beginning of my researches, I firstly analysed case-studies, currently started to conjugate the diverse experiences and drew broader conclusions. I presented shorter studies both in national and international conferences, and some longer papers also appeared in the last few years.

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