Article: MOVING BEYOND THE "YELLOW ARMADILLO"

Tom Wolfe, in his seminal critique of modemist architecture, began his "From Bauhaus to Our House" essay by pointing out the obvious that so many people are unwilling to acknowledge. Writing in 1980, he observed that every child now goes to school in a building that looks like a dupHrating-machine replacement-parts wholesale distribution warehouse: "Not even the school commissioners, who commissioned it and approved the plans, can figure out how it happened. The main thing is to try to avoid having to explain it to the parents."

The same can be said about the missteps and blunders in Catholic church architecture over the past fifty years. Churchgoers and non -churchgoers alike often ask the ...

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