This is why new churches are so ugly
Reporting of F.F.
Archistar & he asked. Dio, forgive them: they don't know what they are building
Of Angelo Crespi
We publish here an extract from Angelo Crespi's essay «Constructed by God» (Johan&Levi, pages. 138, euro 11). The book will be presented today in Milan at the Mondadori Megastore (Cathedral square 1, ore 18,30) and Wednesday at Cantiere Galli Design in Rome (via A.Pacinotti 63, ore 18,30).
And if you want to tell us your ugliest churches, send a photo tosegna@ilgiornale.it. They will all be published online (guard).
One might say: Dio, forgive them because they don't know what they do. On the contrary… they build. Because the new churches designed by the most appreciated star architects (and pay) the world seems to have lost the sense of the sacred and above all of the beautiful. Extravagant to a fault, some are sheds or cubes, or they have toilets near the altar; places where everything is celebrated, except worship. E, meanwhile, every self-respecting city wants its own "museum of the contemporary" as the bell tower once aspired to. Read More