Centralized Spaces in Hungarian Church Architecture between the World Wars – Historical and Structural Survey of the Dome of Ottokár Prohászka Memorial Church

Abstract

Architectural research, focusing on Hungarian architecture in the inter-war period so far, have mainly analysed buildings and architects regarding the international modern architecture and the path leading to development of modern Hungarian architecture. The present article undertakes complex research on an emblematic, but less discussed building of the era with the related competition, the sacral buildings with similar structure and space arrangement. The social and art historical research is supplemented with the analysis of the behaviour of the structure and the circumstances of the construction. Besides investigating the era of the construction of the church, a brief description of the planning competition is presented with archetypes of the architectural history and the structures, also showing the construction process. The description is complemented with the results of the examination on the spot and the reconstruction of the presumable original statics calculation.