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To: Aquinasfan

I think your view is a personal one, which is fine with me. I personally try to enjoy varied creative approaches to art and architecture. My education and work is tied to that field. Criticism of Mahoney is justified, but should not have any bearing on the work of so many others who brought this project to fruition. By the way... all the money was raised for this project through donations. I believe I have some documentation somewhere in my files regarding this.

“One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.”


90 posted on 07/18/2007 6:53:53 PM PDT by antceecee (Western countries really aren't up to winning this war on terror... it might offend the terrorists.)
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To: antceecee
You can go to the Cathedral website http://www.olacathedral.org and get lots of pictures of the exterior and the interior. There is no virtual tour that I can find, however.

The problem with the idea that we should approve of "varied creative approaches to art and architecture," (in this instance, anyway) is that a Catholic sanctuary has a particular purpose, and that purpose is served by particular types of architecture.

When a professor of architecture is turned loose to do as he wills, you often get some pretty wild ideas that don't facilitate or help Catholic worship.

In this case, I would say that the Brutalist style writ large is simply NOT appropriate for a place of worship.

92 posted on 07/19/2007 7:00:21 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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