Bruno Angheben and the Church of St Romuald and All Saints in Rijeka: A Contribution to Its Research and Evaluation

Abstract

Based on recent research, the article clarifies the circumstances under which the decision was made to build a church in Rijeka / Kozala, the involvement of political and clerical structures in its implementation, the evolution of Bruno Angheben’s project and its theoretical rationale, and the process of building and furnishing the church, landscaping its surrounding, and undertaking subsequent adaptations. As an important work of Croatian (and Italian) modern sacral architecture of the 20th century, the church of St Romuald and All Saints has been documented by the local chroniclers and the designer himself, and has been the subject of scholarly and professional reviews by the historians of art and architecture since the 1970s. Due to the politically problematic period in which it was constructed, the church in Kozala still encourages further research with new hypotheses and evaluations, to which this paper hopes to have contributed as well.