Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

Prax: a wonderful collection of images; I’ve seen the interior of Vierzehnheiligen often enough in architecture books, but not the remarkable exterior. Neumann was clearly an architect of genius and the plastic forms of some of his buildings are (much more crudely) echoed in some of today’s attempts at ‘wobbly’ buildings. (Compare, for example, the formless chapel at Bon Secours recently built.)
In one sense his interiors are ‘decadent’ and they led to much over-sentimentalised decoration in Victorian Gothic churches, but this is the work of a master and the extent to which they are cared for is a tribute to him.