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Hrumph!
[I didn’t get a hrumph from that guy]
Actually the Dowtnown church in LA pretty bad Our Lady of the Angels
I hope when the BIG Earthquake hit it nail it
Antonio Barluzzi, the most profoundly beautiful churches in the Holy Land. He was a Franciscan Monk!
Well, some I thought were odd, some I thought were modern, some were strange, even a few were interesting...
What I found amuzing is that no mosques or mormon temples where included (unless I missed them), which I think look like sand castles.
Some are indeed ugly, but some are simply modern architecture which have been well designed.
Methinks the author has a definite bias.
Crooked structure for crooked people.
How could anyone have a problem with #21? It’s totally traditional.
They are ugly.
Two or three of those weren’t that bad; but yeah, quite a bit of real bow-wow barkitecture there. Thank God, most Christians walk by faith, not by site :)
And each and every one of the Roman Catholic churches shown in that series of photographs was a post-Vatican II design.
Figures.
If Leonid Brezhnev had been a Bishop, this would've been his throne.
Oh, my! I needed that.
The mosque should not be listed with churches, no matter how ugly those churches are.
They are not at all comparable. Moslems do not God. They worship Satan.
I had discussions (sometimes arguments) with my art teacher in college. I believe form should follow function. He believed function had no place in art. It was a furniture making class. What use is a chair you can’t sit on. He thought if you can sit on it, it is not art. Our first project was a simple one using bent lamination. I made a cane with two handles. He liked it and I thought that it was practical for old couples to share when taking a walk.
The first consideration when building a building is will it meet your needs? Many of the converted warehouse church don’t look traditional but they are very functional.
On the other end is the Cathedral. The church should be the best building in town. Many times much of the work was done by members that devoted their lives work to building of it. It was there way of honoring God. The Temple in Jerusalem was magnificent likewise so should their church.
I fall somewhere in the middle of these two philosophies.
I have never seen a ugly church where the people worshiped God. They might have incredibly poor taste in my opinion. But if everyone had the same taste in buildings as I do, I would live on a boring street.