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So you think you’d like to live in a church…
When we were growing up my sister and I knew Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant off by heart, including the full monologue. Long story. Nevertheless I never had a fantasy of actually living in a...
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Alvaro Siza
This is the Parish Church Complex of Marco de Canevezes, Portugal. It was designed by Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza with Rolando Torgo and completed in 1990. It’s a deceptively simple building. Its...
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Converted churches, Part 2: Belgium, England, Australia
Here are three converted churches which seem much more successful than most of the examples in the last post. Above is a 19th century chapel in the Flemish village of Bazel which has been converted...
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Hanging ships
Western European churches, especially those near or in shipping towns, often suspended a model ship from the ceiling as a symbol of good luck for sailors. The practice is probably most common in...
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Chapel in Tarnów, Poland, by Beton Architects
This chapel in Tarnów, Poland, is by Marta Rowińska & Lech Rowiński of the firm Beton (photos by Beton) and was completed in 2009. Like so many wooden churches, it feels like an inverted wooden...
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Converted church in Westport, MA
Alyn Carlson has been fixing up this old Massachussetts church up for 28 years. That worries me for myself – is that how long it takes? Oh god, I hope not; I’m on Year 7. I love her place, though. I’d...
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Kärsämäki church, Finland
This Finnish church by Anssi Lassila was one of the reasons for starting this blog, and maybe that’s why, paradoxically, it got forgetten – it already seemed to be here. Not being a fan of religion,...
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Peter Zumthor chosen for 2011 Serpentine Pavilion
Peter Zumthor has been named the architect for the 2010 Serpentine Pavilion in London, having just won the Pritzker Prize in 2009 and Japan’s Praemium Imperiale in 2008. I was reminded of his work...
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Taos, New Mexico
There are views of two different churches here. San Francisco de Assissi just south of Taos, New Mexico, along with an old settlement there. The church with the white banding around the wall is part...
View ArticleFrom Syria to Greece to Corbusier: Hozoviotissa monastery
Earlier this summer a number of the Syrians fleeing civil war landed on the Greek island of Amorgos. Amorgos is not a common landing point in the exodus—most people are now landing on Kos not far from...
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