Global Gothic - Neo-Gothic sacral architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries

在20世纪和21世纪，世界各地有超过100座新哥特式教堂，其中许多仍在建设中。这些大多是各种基督教信仰的大教堂或具有纪念意义的朝圣教堂，由于各种原因，在很大程度上被艺术史研究所忽视。首先，因为风格上独立的“新哥特式”似乎在历史上完成了现代艺术的开始。什么是后来建立在这种风格的习语被认为是艺术低劣。此外，大部分建筑都位于欧洲“哥特核心大陆”之外，这就是为什么传统哥特式和新哥特式研究对它们的看法相当傲慢。该项目希望扭转这种观点：这些建筑之所以受到重视，是因为它们的建造需要大量的组织、资金和艺术努力。他们在国家建设和身份建设过程中的作用进行了审查，因为是他们的作用与宗教和教派的主张。特别是在这种情况下，他们大多在欧洲以外的事实起着特别重要的作用。从这一点出发，我们可以从后殖民艺术史的角度来看待全球哥特复兴的发展。此外，我们还试图将这些建筑理解为20世纪和21世纪被忽视的建筑和风格史的元素，并将其归类。实际的问题也必须问，如哥特式的形式和建筑技术已转移到现代，谁的建筑师，他们经历了什么样的培训等，该项目试图首先系统地捕捉和分析这一全球现象。第二，将在各个文化领域开展详细的研究，这通常需要在选定的地点进行地方档案研究。这将在世界三个地区进行：在拉丁美洲，新哥特式建筑只是在世纪才真正成为一个相关的主题;在北美，哥特式复兴的趋势自十九世纪以来就存在，但在二十世纪和二十一世纪，新哥特式建筑出现了相当独立和原创的发展;最后是在澳大利亚，在那里可以观察到英国哥特式复兴从世纪延续到今天。所有区域对其他区域（例如南非和印度）也是一个典范，但由于实际原因，这些区域无法在要求提供资金的时期内得到处理。

More than hundred large neo-gothic churches around the world were founded and built during the 20th and 21st centuries, many of them still under construction. These are mostly cathedrals of various Christian confessions or pilgrimage churches of monumental dimensions, largely ignored by art historical research for various reasons. At first because stylistically independent "Neo-Gothic" seems historically finished with the beginning of the modern age in art. What was built later in this stylistic idiom is considered artistically inferior. Furthermore, most of the buildings are located outside the "Gothic core continent" of Europe, which is why they are viewed rather condescendingly by traditional Gothic and Neo Gothic research.The project wants to reverse the perspectives: the buildings are taken serious because their construction requires a great deal of organizational, financial and artistic effort. Their role in the process of nation-building and identity-building is examined, as is their role in relation to religious and confessional assertions. Especially in such contexts, the fact that they are mostly outside of Europe plays a particularly important role. For from this there are perspectives for the development of the until today ongoing global Gothic-Revival in the sense of a postcolonial art history.In addition, attempts are made to understand and classify these buildings as elements of an ignored architecture and style history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Practical questions have to be asked too, such as how Gothic forms and building techniques have been transferred to the modern age, who the architects are, what training they have experienced, etc.The project attempts first to a systematic capture and analysis of this global phenomenon. In second, detailed studies will be carried out in various cultural areas, which usually requires local archive studies in selected locations. This is to be done in three regions of the world: In Latin America, where neo-gothic architecture really became a relevant topic only in the 20th century; in North America, where gothic revival tendencies have existed since the nineteenth century, but where in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a quite independent and original development of neo-gothic architecture took place; and finally in Australia, where a continuation of English Gothic Revival from the 19th century to the present day can be observed. All regions are also exemplary for others (for example, South Africa and India), which for pragmatic reasons can not be dealt with within the period for which funding is requested.