Byrne driving across country describes first his view of the Mormon Cathedral in DC..
"I haven’t been able to find out the architect of this DC temple. As a spectacle it surely ranks as one of the great works of architecture, but I seriously doubt that architectural scholars and critics will agree with me here — they might prefer the more austere, minimal church of Tadao Ando or Corbusier’s wacky asymmetrical church in France. I’ll take this one, and Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, over those austere buildings. If certain architectural works are made to inspire awe and act as three dimensional signs and symbols, then surely this one qualifies."
And of the formless sub-ex-urban sprawl ND ITS buildings......
"It’s so Spartan and purely functional in keeping with the Bauhaus dictum “form follows function.” But these structures take the prize — they make the Germans and 20th century Modernists looks baroque."
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