Architectural Strategies of Dis- and Re-Enchantment: Building for the European Union Is Not a Master Narrative
This contribution looks at the different architectures for the institutions of the European Union in Brussels. Based on the ideas of the sociologist Max Weber, and later the theologian Harvey Cox, of an increasingly secularized, disenchanted urban society, the author first analyzes the earlier build...
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| description | This contribution looks at the different architectures for the institutions of the European Union in Brussels. Based on the ideas of the sociologist Max Weber, and later the theologian Harvey Cox, of an increasingly secularized, disenchanted urban society, the author first analyzes the earlier buildings for the European Community as an expression of a rationalist, even ‘disenchanted’ architectural strategy. This contrasts with the efforts of the European Union in the 21st century, which attempts to strengthen identification with the European Union by various means. One of these strategies—as the author points out—is to increasingly charge architecture with auratic meaning, in other words, to re-enchant it. Nevertheless, both architectural solutions do not offer a nation-like master narrative but are intended—each in its own manner—to represent a network of many individual parts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fa743deeb1c74e15b732223e617eee1b2023-11-18T21:09:11ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442023-06-0114782310.3390/rel14070823Architectural Strategies of Dis- and Re-Enchantment: Building for the European Union Is Not a Master NarrativeJulia Rüdiger0Faculty of Art and Philosophy, Catholic Private University Linz, 4020 Linz, AustriaThis contribution looks at the different architectures for the institutions of the European Union in Brussels. Based on the ideas of the sociologist Max Weber, and later the theologian Harvey Cox, of an increasingly secularized, disenchanted urban society, the author first analyzes the earlier buildings for the European Community as an expression of a rationalist, even ‘disenchanted’ architectural strategy. This contrasts with the efforts of the European Union in the 21st century, which attempts to strengthen identification with the European Union by various means. One of these strategies—as the author points out—is to increasingly charge architecture with auratic meaning, in other words, to re-enchant it. Nevertheless, both architectural solutions do not offer a nation-like master narrative but are intended—each in its own manner—to represent a network of many individual parts.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/7/823re-enchantmentarchitecture of the European UniondisenchantmentPost-Secular Urbanism |
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| title | Architectural Strategies of Dis- and Re-Enchantment: Building for the European Union Is Not a Master Narrative |
| title_full | Architectural Strategies of Dis- and Re-Enchantment: Building for the European Union Is Not a Master Narrative |
| title_fullStr | Architectural Strategies of Dis- and Re-Enchantment: Building for the European Union Is Not a Master Narrative |
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| title_short | Architectural Strategies of Dis- and Re-Enchantment: Building for the European Union Is Not a Master Narrative |
| title_sort | architectural strategies of dis and re enchantment building for the european union is not a master narrative |
| topic | re-enchantment architecture of the European Union disenchantment Post-Secular Urbanism |
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