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Thoughts on church building

This booklet (without illustrations) was written in response to an article in the journal Roeping in 1924, in which it was noted that with regard to the development of church architecture there are no unanimous thoughts. With this publication, the authors want to make a start in reconciling the different thoughts and they want to arrive at one overall church building style, in which every interested party can agree and which meets "the religious, economical and aesthetic demands, which contemporary society rightly makes on the construction of the church. The authors complain about the fact that in present-day architecture the individual comes to the fore and, as a result, art 'can hardly overcome the forced.' Church architecture in particular suffers from this. They call for original building methods (Middle Ages, Viollet-le-Duc) and an uncluttered building without excessive decoration, with simple, indigenous materials. A church should be moody, but not want to appear more than it is. In doing so, the three visual arts must again work in harmony with each other, under the direction of architecture, in defiance of the 20th century tendency for the various artistic disciplines to develop entirely separately. The artists must work together in unison. Only then will there be unity of style and design again, and "a building will be able to be n in the smallest detail. "Furthermore, further consideration is given to the course of events when one wants to build a church: building requirements, building site, floor plan, good cooperation between client and architect, choice of architect, -'the dignity of a (church) building demands the best strength one can find for it, especially for the main idea, the design'- layout, form.

Thoughts on church building

This booklet (without illustrations) was written in response to an article in the journal Roeping in 1924, in which it was noted that with regard to the development of church architecture there are no unanimous thoughts. With this publication, the authors want to make a start in reconciling the different thoughts and they want to arrive at one overall church building style, in which every interested party can agree and which meets "the religious, economical and aesthetic demands, which contemporary society rightly makes on the construction of the church. The authors complain about the fact that in present-day architecture the individual comes to the fore and, as a result, art 'can hardly overcome the forced.' Church architecture in particular suffers from this. They call for original building methods (Middle Ages, Viollet-le-Duc) and an uncluttered building without excessive decoration, with simple, indigenous materials. A church should be moody, but not want to appear more than it is. In doing so, the three visual arts must again work in harmony with each other, under the direction of architecture, in defiance of the 20th century tendency for the various artistic disciplines to develop entirely separately. The artists must work together in unison. Only then will there be unity of style and design again, and "a building will be able to be n in the smallest detail. "Furthermore, further consideration is given to the course of events when one wants to build a church: building requirements, building site, floor plan, good cooperation between client and architect, choice of architect, -'the dignity of a (church) building demands the best strength one can find for it, especially for the main idea, the design'- layout, form.