Archinect - News2024-05-05T06:15:51-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150289116/nathan-johnson-innovator-of-modernist-black-churches-passes-away-at-96
Nathan Johnson, Innovator of Modernist Black Churches, Passes Away at 96 b3tadine[sutures]2021-11-23T00:11:00-05:00>2022-03-14T10:01:08-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/91/91eab40530fd720bfbbf4c5f28ec0dbb.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>When The Detroit Free Press wrote a profile of Mr. Johnson in 1963, he declared his commitment to modernism and his extreme distaste for ornamentation and pastiche — “dishonest copies of the past,” as he put it.
He particularly disliked colonial architecture. “We’re not living a colonial life, we’re not using colonial materials and we don’t even believe in colonialism,” he said. “Why should we design a colonial church?”</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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