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Bang or whimper
Ed. Anyone who has ever seen the Pompidou Center, or wonders about the chaos of so much modern architecture, will appreciate this essay.
The New Criterion Theodore Dalrymple
Not having seen every building in the world, I cannot positively assert that the Centre Pompidou in the Place Beaubourg in Paris is the worst, but I should be surprised if anyone were able to point to a building that was very much worse.
17 comments Wednesday 29 Mar 2006 | Jacobse | Architecture, Art and more |
What the Structure Says: Two Milwaukee churches’ contrasting ideas about architecture and the sacred
The Wall Street Journal has an article that touches on the function of architecture in creating churches (worship-spaces?) written by an architectural critic.
What makes a church sacred? Until the Reformation, the standard answer was its consecration as a house of God. Since Vatican II and the cultural ferment of the 1960s, Catholic and Protestant reformers alike have subscribed to the notion that churches are merely functional settings, whether for celebrating liturgical rites or hearing the Word.
3 comments Friday 21 Jan 2005 | Jacobse | Architecture, General |
