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Regina Connell's avatar

I would also add...how does architecture make someone inside feel and even behave: it should hold and move and inspire.... not just the exterior. And s interesting to think of when architecture peaked. Most modern architecture lacks the inspiring grandeur that classical architecture moves me with, and certainly the sense of detail and craftsmanship that awes me with what the human hand can achieve.

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Peter Walker's avatar

And the great Gothic cathedrals were built literally over generations and even centuries. They were living embodiments of the teaching that heaven is a communal goal and aspiration. The architects were usually unknown to history and the builders anonymous members of guilds. All was for the glory of God. I would say the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona - although not Gothic - was intended by Gaudi to be built over centuries in accordance with this tradition. The modern world ruins everything in its narcissistic need for "earlier completion". Using modern machines to accelerate the construction, which should have taken centuries, would not have been what Gaudi wanted.

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