Archives d’architectes et églises du XXe siècle

Abstract

Over the past twenty years, the 20th-century architectural archives held today at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine have underpinned considerable progress in research in the history of architecture. Religious architecture has also benefited from this progress, although, despite the considerable interest of the archives of certain architects or building firms, studies in this particular field are still lacking,. Amongst the new research directions that can be suggested today, this article draws attention to two fields: the study of preliminary projects and of projects that, in the end, were not carried out, and the massive development of new religious building after 1945.

Keywords

• Lecturer at the Université of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
• contemporary religious architecture
• religious heritage
• parisian churches
• archives of contemporary architecture
• non-executed projects