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Jonathan Bell

A visual survey of post-war European churches captures modernity’s spiritual exploration

From 'Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture', Jamie McGregor Smith, Hatje Cantz, a survey of post-war European churches.

There is a rich offering of post-war European churches in the realm of religious architecture; surprising, perhaps, given the horrors of the first half of the century and the apparent absence of the divine. Clearly, a change was needed; and this new monograph from photographer (and Wallpaper* contributor) Jamie McGregor Smith, is a personal journey through the new, post-war era’s modernist architecture, bringing a fresh creative eye to these worn and weathered structures.

L’Église Saint-Nicolas, Heremence, Switzerland, by Walter Maria Förderer, 1967-1971 (Image credit: Jamie McGregor Smith)
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