ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some pioneering examples of architectural and clerical collaboration in producing this new liturgical architecture. The principles of architectural modernism resonated with those of liturgical reform and scholarship. For post-war British church architects, Schwarz was a model for the integration of architectural modernism and liturgical thinking. For Schwarz, however, the purpose of this analysis of liturgical space was more symbolic and mystical than British architects often more strictly functionalist approaches. Their approach made them especially attractive to British church architects inspired by the New Brutalism and liturgical thought. The liturgical movement originated in the nineteenth century when new scholarship on the history and theology of liturgy resulted in a desire to change liturgical practice. A further development in the liturgical movement took place in France, where parish clergy developed the idea of a 'pastoral liturgy' that could educate the laity in its meanings as it was performed.
