American post-war church architecture

Su Lileks.com, una sezione dedicata agli "studi urbani" include delle curiosee immagini di chiese statunitensi dal dopoguerra:

"...Post-war churches faced a dilemma: how to look like a house of worship while looking modern? You might say "that's only a dilemma if they thought churches had to look modern to attract believers," and you'd be right. There was no good reason churches had to cast off a thousand years of tradition and start dressing up like bank branches, but that's exactly what they did. The Depression and the War had done away with the old architectural vocabulary, and the triumphant rise of the Modernists meant that even churches would now be bent to the rationalist's lathe..."

(Our Lady of the Skies, Nostra Signora dei Cieli - cappella presso l'aeroporto di Idelwild, South Ozone Park, New York.
Da notare: la statua della Madonna sul rotore...)

Postato da Giorgia | 18:44 | permalink | commenti
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