Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Pietro Belluschi, dean of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and himself one of the most skilled of church architects, reluctantly concurs. But for Architect Belluschi this fact is in itself a challenge: "If we cannot erect great monuments, we may endeavor to create small temples, on a more human...
Honest Materials. The church form most suited to worship varies greatly in the minds of U.S. churchmen. It ranges from such early classics as Carpenter Lavius Fillmore's First Congregational Church in Bennington, Vt., derived from an 18th century American builder's handbook adapting the designs of Sir...
Technology, placed at the service of the church, makes possible more audacity in design. For the Benedictine monastery church of St. John's at Collegeville, Minn., Marcel Breuer has flung skyward a 112-ft.-high bell banner utilizing reinforced concrete and parabolic curves to erect a vertical cantilever, a...
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Tradition Updated. Technology also tempts to structural exhibitionism. Pietro Belluschi has raised a warning: "A simple church, well proportioned, is always better than an elaborate one. Church design should be an exercise in restraint, in understatement." Belluschi is equally concerned that the cult of novelty for its own sake, and...