Aldo van Eyck's Pastoor Van Ars Church in The Hague: Timeless Sacred Architecture for Worship & Meditation

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Aldo van Eyck) 1969Pastoor van Ars Church20

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(Francis Strauven) 100

The Pastor van Ars Church that was built in 1969 by Aldo van Eyck in The Hague is one of the few significant church buildings to emerge from the second half of the twentieth century. This book sheds light on the unique architectural and spatial qualities of the building. Although not a Catholic believer himself, Van Eyck endeavoured to realize an authentic and contemporary Catholic church building. To this end he went back to the original typology of the early christian basilica, whose components he incorporated into the new conception of space put forard by the twentieth-century avant-garde, in particular the dynamic order of Mondrian and the archetypes of Brancusi. The author, who previously wrote an extensive monograph in the ideas and work of the Dutch architect, pay particular attention to the intensive design process, which he has reconstructed using more than a hundred design sketches from the Van Eyck archive.