Church buildings. An archive of post-war Modernism by Piet Eckert & Wim Eckert (eds.)

Edited by Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert, Church Buildings examines sacred architectures in Germany as historical artefacts as well as constructive and spatial responses to the conditions of reconstruction after 1945. Central are questions of material, structure, and space and their relevance to issues such as circular and resource-conscious building practices. The selected churches are systematically compared through historical photographs, figure-ground plans, floor plans, sections, and detailed drawings. Bringing together projects by key architects of post-war modernism, the book establishes an archive that reconsiders the constructive strategies of the period from today’s perspective.