Archinect - News2024-05-05T23:37:27-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/108020530/why-modern-architecture-struggles-to-inspire-catholics
Why Modern Architecture Struggles to Inspire Catholics Alexander Walter2014-09-02T13:45:00-04:00>2019-01-05T12:31:03-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ee/ee66e2fcca2a7dec4c615d748e92dd89?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Outside a few rare examples such as Ronchamp, I sense that Modernism has failed to deliver an architecture that connects with most Catholics and other traditional Christians. Much of this has to do with fact that Modernism as a cultural movement is inherently atheistic as it is based on a secular materialist philosophy.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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https://archinect.com/news/article/73180632/the-roman-catholic-church-is-coming-to-the-venice-biennale
The Roman Catholic Church is coming to the Venice Biennale Archinect2013-05-14T20:44:00-04:00>2013-05-21T18:06:50-04:00
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