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November 9, 2009 Archives

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Is the pope Catholic? Maybe, but watch his churches . . .

popepetition.jpg 12:45 AM Mon, Nov 09, 2009 | | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

A recent visitor to Rome tells me that efforts are afoot to petition the Pope to issue some sort of encyclical or edict or whatever urging that Catholic institutions such as churches and diocese avoid modern art and architecture.......

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 Tags  architecture   art   Catholic Church   modernism   Pope   Vatican  

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Coming up: Salingaros closing in on mod cult

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By David Brussat    Email

I have used the above photograph, of the newly opened Providence Career and Technical Academy (or High School), to illustrate "deconstructivist" architecture. It is apparently the only major (or minor for all I know) example of it in the......

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 Tags  Career and Technical High School   cult   modernism   Nikos Salingaros   Providence RI  

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