How All Catholic Churches Should Look!

[Jesus_lol]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/07NrJ.jpg[/img]

its a catholic church in Bettlach Switzerland made 40 something years ago. I think its pretty sweet.

[Nihil Obstat]

I barfed a bit.

It looks like Habitat 67 in Montreal. Kind of neat as houses, although maybe a bit Brutalist, but awful as a church.

[arfink]

Got pictures of the insides? I am one of those rare heretics who can honestly say I don't mind brutalist architecture. I prefer something a bit more sculpted generally, but the form is eye-catching. Get me the name and pics of the inside and I'll comment some more!

It honestly reminds me of "buildings" I would make as a child out of these Fisher Price building panels which I do not know what they are called, but we always called them "waffle blocks."

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='arfink' timestamp='1331745342' post='2400615']
Got pictures of the insides? I am one of those rare heretics who can honestly say I don't mind brutalist architecture. I prefer something a bit more sculpted generally, but the form is eye-catching. Get me the name and pics of the inside and I'll comment some more!

It honestly reminds me of "buildings" I would make as a child out of these Fisher Price building panels which I do not know what they are called, but we always called them "waffle blocks."
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If you like it for buildings in general, then more power to you. For a Catholic church it's completely unacceptable.

[Papist]

This is how all Catholics Churches should look like.

[img]http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/chartres_ext.jpg[/img]

[Jesus_lol]

nah, man have you seen the houses Jesus made as a carpenter? totally Brutalist.

[MissyP89]

^^^That right there is some funny stuff. Good one, dude.^^^

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1331744223' post='2400600']
[img]http://i.imgur.com/07NrJ.jpg[/img]

its a catholic church in Bettlach Switzerland made 40 something years ago. I think its pretty sweet.
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It looks like a game of Jenga gone horribly wrong.

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

Ha. Ha. Ha. WHAT?

[Hubertus]

Like a paintball course?

[i<3LSOP]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1331745914' post='2400624']
It looks like a game of Jenga gone horribly wrong.
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[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1331745638' post='2400620']
nah, man have you seen the houses Jesus made as a carpenter? totally Brutalist.
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Evidence suggests that Jesus was into Rococo architecture.
See this one? [img]http://artsz.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/rococo-russia-winter-palace.jpg[/img]
He threw that one together over a couple weekends when He was 17.

[EmilyAnn]

[quote name='Papist' timestamp='1331745591' post='2400618']
This is how all Catholics Churches should look like.

[img]http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/chartres_ext.jpg[/img]
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As beautiful as old churches are, I do think that we also shouldn't limit what a beautiful church is to a certain style. This is Brasilia Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida). It's modern but it's still beautiful. As long as it reflects the glory of God, that's what is important.

[img]http://www.swalk.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/brasilia_cathedral.jpg[/img]

[i<3LSOP]

[quote name='EmilyAnn' timestamp='1331749088' post='2400668']
As long as it reflects the glory of God, that's what is important.

[img]http://www.swalk.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/brasilia_cathedral.jpg[/img]
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As long as the tabernacle is visible...

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='EmilyAnn' timestamp='1331749088' post='2400668']
As beautiful as old churches are, I do think that we also shouldn't limit what a beautiful church is to a certain style. This is Brasilia Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida). It's modern but it's still beautiful. As long as it reflects the glory of God, that's what is important.

[img]http://www.swalk.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/brasilia_cathedral.jpg[/img]
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There's more to it than that. Sacred architecture isn't just what happens to make us happy, or what happens to be trendy. There is a certain standard, and a very specific purpose.
A modernist church like that is far less appropriate for worship than something in, for instance, the Gothic style, because of features of the style itself.

It's just like how certain styles of music are inappropriate for Mass, whereas certain other styles are very well suited for worship. In the case of sacred music Gregorian chant is the 'gold standard', whereas pop hymns and folk settings are not acceptable.