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I know some people who have been approved to work on the temples. Each of them is very good at what they do, and they all pay closer attention to detail when they work on a temple than the very careful work they do regularly. Don’t disparage people who really are craftsmen by claiming there are none anymore. That simply is inaccurate and wrong.
Old-Timer wrote:I know some people who have been approved to work on the temples. Each of them is very good at what they do, and they all pay closer attention to detail when they work on a temple than the very careful work they do regularly.
Don’t disparage people who really are craftsmen by claiming there are none anymore. That simply is inaccurate and wrong.
Great point Ray!
SamBee wrote:Behind the neo-classical and gothic, ornate exteriors lurks a brutalists, cold interior.
You all pretend you want Michelangelo and the Nauvoo temple, but in your heart of hearts, you are a disciple of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus.
Just wait til Jeff Koons influenced artwork is commissioned for the temple, and Finnish/Scandinavian furniture.
Sam may have a good point too but I have no idea what he is talking about!
😆 SamBee wrote:Behind the neo-classical and gothic, ornate exteriors lurks a brutalists, cold interior.
You all pretend you want Michelangelo and the Nauvoo temple, but in your heart of hearts, you are a disciple of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus.
Just wait til Jeff Koons influenced artwork is commissioned for the temple, and Finnish/Scandinavian furniture.
Hmm, well I’m actually uncomfortable with all those ideas for temples design. When I picture god, his creations and earth and the universe and I look at temples they just don’t compliment each other like 2 very different schools of thought.
I always pictures a temple more organic and natural flowing design that intertwines with nature not do closed off from it and all gods creations and so startlingly well human and typical high society fare. Walking into them looks so strikingly Similar to some of my friends houses in Southern California that I get a very strong déjà vu.
Anyway I like many Asian temples more but they are still nowhere near what I picture but much more closer like in India, Thai or Japan but still no where close. Since I don’t know a architect who builds such ideas I have no idea who be the builder of such a design. Would like to see one though, temple or or not, chapel or just regular building. Especially one that is environmentally friendly and sustainably responsible.
Old-Timer wrote:I know some people who have been approved to work on the temples. Each of them is very good at what they do, and they all pay closer attention to detail when they work on a temple than the very careful work they do regularly.
Don’t disparage people who really are craftsmen by claiming there are none anymore. That simply is inaccurate and wrong.
I did not mean to imply those who work on temples are not skilled. The are very good at what they do. But they are good at modern techniques. That is not bad just different. But the idea that we would still have hand carved doorknobs and hand carved stone blocks for a foundation is gone. The Salt Lake temple is built out of stone as the supporting structure. Across the street the conference center used similar stone but as a veneer hung in place over a framework. That is just the way we build today. One took years of practice to master the other takes real technical expertise. Not the same thing.
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