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Tradicijų ir novacijų santykis šiuolaikinėje Lietuvos sakralinėje architektūroje ; Relation between novation and tradition in contemporary Lithuanian sacred architecture
The research involves two problems of Lithuanian sacred architecture – tradition and innovation. Tradition has been preconditioned by history, habits and customs formed within centuries. Such important factors as wars, occupations and foreign ideologies have also made a great influence. Any spread of religious thought and practice was forbidden and restricted quite for a long time in Lithuania. Under such circumstances the tradition of sacred architecture could not stay vital and develop in full-rate. Deeper and more precise analysis of the aforementioned architecture could contribute to identifying the traditions in designing Roman Catholic buildings and what has remained old in this sacred architecture. While analyzing church architecture, innovations and the problem of their expression are faced alongside the historic factors. During soviet times, architects were deprived of getting any training in design of sacred buildings, and churches were not built due to atheistic policy of authorities of the time. Believers were even persecuted and priests underwent various repressions. By the order of occupational authorities, churches were purposely destroyed – turned into storehouses or factories, or simply desolated and condemned to destruction. As soon as Lithuania regained its independence, attempts were made to improve the situation. It was started to design and build churches hastily. Soon it was noticed that lack of experience and knowledge has opened the way to mistakes and ungrounded solutions. Churches at the time were mostly designed unprofessionally without considering the subtle aspects of scale, confession, liturgy, religious symbolism and even the region. This phenomenon could be avoided, if a framework of architectural knowledge would have been developed and foreign experience would have been followed. In order to avoid such mistakes in the future, it is important to fill in the gaps of knowledge in achitecturology related to sustainable development of sacred architecture. Detailed research of sacred architecture, its tradition and innovation aspects could provide a positive impetus to sustainable development of such buildings in Lithuania, as well as an opportunity to assess critically the mistakes of the past.
Tradicijų ir novacijų santykis šiuolaikinėje Lietuvos sakralinėje architektūroje ; Relation between novation and tradition in contemporary Lithuanian sacred architecture
The research involves two problems of Lithuanian sacred architecture – tradition and innovation. Tradition has been preconditioned by history, habits and customs formed within centuries. Such important factors as wars, occupations and foreign ideologies have also made a great influence. Any spread of religious thought and practice was forbidden and restricted quite for a long time in Lithuania. Under such circumstances the tradition of sacred architecture could not stay vital and develop in full-rate. Deeper and more precise analysis of the aforementioned architecture could contribute to identifying the traditions in designing Roman Catholic buildings and what has remained old in this sacred architecture. While analyzing church architecture, innovations and the problem of their expression are faced alongside the historic factors. During soviet times, architects were deprived of getting any training in design of sacred buildings, and churches were not built due to atheistic policy of authorities of the time. Believers were even persecuted and priests underwent various repressions. By the order of occupational authorities, churches were purposely destroyed – turned into storehouses or factories, or simply desolated and condemned to destruction. As soon as Lithuania regained its independence, attempts were made to improve the situation. It was started to design and build churches hastily. Soon it was noticed that lack of experience and knowledge has opened the way to mistakes and ungrounded solutions. Churches at the time were mostly designed unprofessionally without considering the subtle aspects of scale, confession, liturgy, religious symbolism and even the region. This phenomenon could be avoided, if a framework of architectural knowledge would have been developed and foreign experience would have been followed. In order to avoid such mistakes in the future, it is important to fill in the gaps of knowledge in achitecturology related to sustainable development of sacred architecture. Detailed research of sacred architecture, its tradition and innovation aspects could provide a positive impetus to sustainable development of such buildings in Lithuania, as well as an opportunity to assess critically the mistakes of the past.
Tradicijų ir novacijų santykis šiuolaikinėje Lietuvos sakralinėje architektūroje ; Relation between novation and tradition in contemporary Lithuanian sacred architecture
Krūgelis, Linas (author) / Samalavičius, Almantas
2012-12-12
Theses
Electronic Resource
Lithuanian , English
DDC:
720