
Bauhaus: Last Rites - daddy_drank
https://the-easel.com/essays/bauhaus-a-failed-utopia-3/
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eternalban
And that is not "Bauhaus". The building in question definitively looks like a
Corbu clone.

[https://www.archdaily.com/806115/ad-classics-master-plan-
for...](https://www.archdaily.com/806115/ad-classics-master-plan-for-
chandigarh-le-corbusier)

I've always admired Nervi's concrete works:
[https://www.google.com/search?q=nervi+concrete+buildings&btn...](https://www.google.com/search?q=nervi+concrete+buildings&btnG=Search&hl=en&tbm=isch)

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xtiansimon
Meis dismisses the Breuer and Nevi church which is shown at the opening of the
article: “It is a sheet of concrete that pretends to be nothing else. It looks
more or less like a giant sidewalk lifted up and placed horizontally across
the sky.”

Strikes me as manipulating criticism. The author freely admits to having not
visited the site, so his criticism is really about his impressions of the
photograph.

Of the Eiffel Tower, it’s said French author “...Guy de Maupassant ate lunch
everyday at the base of The Eiffel Tower, because that was the only place in
Paris from which he could not see it...”

I’ve not visited this church, but I can fully imagine if you stood underneath
the bell tower would cast a most unique shadow and not have the same
impression of lifted sidewalk. Pfft!

Now, Breuer’s Norton Shores church? Looks like a hideous bunker (in the
photo). Haha

