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Anno 1928 competition for projects of Orthodox Churches in the Second Polish Republic: in searching new architectural identity
Author(s) -
Petro Rychkov,
Olga Mykhaylyshyn
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
budownictwo i architektura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1899-0665
pISSN - 2544-3275
DOI - 10.35784/bud-arch.1974
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , style (visual arts) , byzantine architecture , architectural style , architecture , identity (music) , empire , history , classics , ancient history , political science , art , aesthetics , visual arts , ecology , biology
Staying of Polish lands in the Russian Empire was accompanied by active construction of Orthodox churches in “Moscow-Byzantine” style. After regeneration of II Rzeczpospolita its authorities try to generate such new trends in church architecture, which would not have symbolic associations with imperial building art. With this purpose in 1927, it was announced competition for the projects of future Orthodox churches with new functional and compositional requirements. The article discusses the conditions of this competition and its results.

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