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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick, originally uploaded by Chez VH.

This lovely stained glass window can be found in the St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Palo Alto, California.

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This is a Unit Study that originally appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Heart and Mind Magazine.

Unit Study Table of Contents

Building on Building (John's Intro)
Architecture, Culture and the Sacred (Alicia's Intro)
Recommendations for Study
Alternative Study Ideas
Caveats
Making an Architecture Notebook
Vocabulary
Architectural Engineering (Math and Science)
Geography
History and Writing
Art
Bridges
Great Buildings
Sacred Architecture
The Four Major Basilicas of Rome
Stained Glass Windows
DVD Resources
Architecture Links of Interest

Notes and Caveats

To the best of my knowledge all of these sites are suitable for viewing by children. However, websites are updated frequently and I strongly recommend adult supervision whenever children are using the Internet.

All Churches listed here are Catholic unless otherwise noted.

Click on photos for source information. Most of these photos were found on flickr under the Creative Commons License.

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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. - Frank Lloyd Wright

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Blog header photo of Mt. St. Michel is courtesy of Stock Exchange. The stained glass window image in the upper sidebar is "The Madonna of Light" from the Vatican, also courtesy of Stock Exchange

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“A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.” G.K. Chesterton