http://www.metafilter.com/tags/soest Posts tagged with 'soest' at MetaFilter. Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:34:38 -0800 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:34:38 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/122858/The%2DBrutality%2Dof%2DExperience <a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671390/brutal-baroque-an-ode-to-midcentury-modern-churches#11">Brutal Baroque: An Ode To Midcentury Modern Churches</a>: French photographer <a href="http://fabricefouillet.com/">Fabrice Fouillet</a> traveled across Europe photographing some of the most important examples of postwar churches, creating a catalogue of the spaces called <a href="http://fabricefouillet.com/gallery.html">Corpus Christi</a>. <em>One image--and architect--articulates the stories behind this era of architecture. Guillaume Gillet, the architect of the remarkable Brutalist cathedral, <a href="http://www.notre-dame-royan.com/animations/fetes-des-lumieres-2012/">Notre Dame de Royan</a>, was imprisoned by the Germans only seven years before he started work on the church. While being held in a camp, he worked with other prisoners to create the famed <a href="http://www.franzkapellesoest.de/en/index.html">French Chapel</a>, a tiny room underneath the roof of their barracks decorated with exquisite religious murals.</em> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122858 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:34:38 -0800 architecture brutalism churches fabrice fabricefouillet fouillet france germany gillet modernism photography postwar soest worldwar2 IvoShandor