Tag: Sacred Spaces
Constructing faith: Postwar religious buildings in Australia
This guest-edited Dossier examines how new ideas in ecclesiastical architecture helped to establish culture and community in Australia’s fledgling suburbs.
The ambition of Pier Luigi Nervi’s unbuilt country cathedral
An ambitious yet ultimately unrealized design for a cathedral in a monastic town in Western Australia by influential engineer-architect Pier Luigi Nervi reveals the growing modernist vocabulary for church buildings during the postwar period.
A church that projected progressivist ideals in Tasmanian suburbia
Now painted white and carpeted in blue, this church in Tasmania is a rare example of brutalism allied to postwar liturgical reform.
A story of migration, refuge and reconstruction: Elwood Talmud Torah
Viennese émigré Kurt Popper was a remarkable and prolific architect who helped introduce European modernism to the design of Australia’s places of worship.
A ‘grand collective effort’ in a regional Victorian church
Muir and Shepherd’s church for a small community at Katamatite in northern Victoria represents a remarkable period of architectural experimentation.
