One Architect's Vision for a Future Christendom
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Augustus Pugin was an architect who spearheaded the Gothic Revival movement in the 19th century. He believed architecture and faith were intertwined....
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If he thought about architecture in 1830 imagine what he would think of modern architecture.
"Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws" - Confucius
As an architecture major, I humbly request more architecture videos, please. :)
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@@ThinkingWest Yay! :D
Trump just signed an executive order yesterday to promote a policy regarding classical architecture. "Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional and classical architecture (...)" This video came just in time! 😁
Brilliant executive order.
@@PancakeProduct He did so last time too, but it was quickly cancelled by Biden.
@@bioliv1 Biden is trash
Yeah, let’s make other copies of palladian architecture that are all identical to each other! Great way to promote good architecture!
@@praisethesun566 Making a search I find them quite different within the style. The best would of course be the Norwegian "Dragestil", the peak of all architecture!
“Architecture for others, not for the ego of the architect” a lot of architects need to hear this.
The ones who need to hear it will say the same thing about tradtional aechitecture and will use it to justify their own modern architecture. Satanic inversion I guess
videos like this one bring together marginals of all stripes who have no idea about architecture and stigmatize modern architecture, using past eras as an example.. if they saw what kind of shacks their ancestors lived in without water, sewerage, heating and electricity - they would tone down their ardor... if an architect does not indulge his ego - he will indulge the ego of his client (that's how it was), and if he does not indulge the ego of the client, then there will be no architecture at all)).. have you not thought about it? or do broilers not know how to think?))
We need to bring back beautiful architecture that elevates the mind to God
that’s a misconception- it elevates the mind to what man can do without God. Additionally, I wouldn’t sell my soul to a very corrupt organization just because im a classical architecture lover like Púgin. He should have thought about the way the Catholic Church obtained such resources and money- through the terrible mass-strife of peasants and through the evil exploitation of the European economy. Architecture must stay cheap in order for the poor to thrive with the rich. A great substitute for the great gothic exteriors would be the great wood-carved interiors of Lutheran churches. Wood is cheap but can be made beautiful with little hardship.
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No, God is the inspiration
@GenericUA-camGuy WOW . Talk about a Terrible Take. NO You are wrong Mr Generic UA-cam Guy. God Inspired the beautiful architecture of centuries past. To this day even non-believers all say the Same One Word Answer when asked "what was the feeling you had when you walked into that Cathedral" -> AWE. It causes the human psyche to feel the awe of things much greater than themselves. IF what You say here was correct how would you explain the complete collapse of the artistic in modern buildings? Modern architecture (there are exceptions of course but on the whole) is Soul-Less.
@FranzBazar the key word here is your ‘non-believers’. People that are obsessed with this world. In awe of the luxury and grandeur of the expensive cathedrals. Who cares if what I say sounds extremely harsh, the thing is, it isn’t wrong. What God inspired is the words of Himself in the Bible, saying: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Whenever Jesus speaks of money, he is saying we must put faith above earthly possessions. God also said this: “DO. NOT. COVET.” What you are saying in this ‘awe’ is more covetous rather than anything spiritual, there’s absolutely no theology in architecture at all. That’s another thing about Catholics and Orthodox, they reinterpret the Bible for their own purposes, such as for Mary’s “eternal” virginity or Mary’s godliness or veneration or good works.
@@marcusantoninus1838 there is no theology in architecture. God is just a coverup to make great temples here on earth even though Christ is the temple. And the high priest. I’m not saying that cathedrals are wrong. I’m saying it isn’t religious or theological, and claiming they are is just false.
Anyone who has ever visited one of these gothic buildings, or one of the classic stone churches, understands the reverence and self-reflection that the architecture inspires. I believe Pugin was correct in his assessment and wish that architects would return to more aesthetically pleasing building design.
Great video!!! I’ve often thought of these concepts, but it’s nice to hear it spoken out loud. As a home builder. I’m constantly trying to figure out why these 100+ year old houses feel so good inside. I have concluded it’s because of the principles stated in the video. Consider how people put all their time and money and sacrifice into their homes nowadays, and yet it does not change the emptiness of how homes feel or the lifelessness that they give off. In the earlier centuries people would sacrifice for The Church.
Beauty will save the world....And the one which is beautiful is the one which is from God
"Beauty will save the world" by Dostoyevsky. The one who saves us the one who is Truth, Godness and Beauty, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Whatever happens, please keep posting. You will inspire the next generation by these video and bring them towards logic, reasoning and spirituality. Great work my friend ❤🎉👑
This architect is truly based and blessed. I want to see a whole city built in such an architecture style, such as Gothic, Traditional Christian, Tartarian, Victorian, or Warhammer 40k type of architecture. It's like architecture commonly depicted in isekai/magical kingdom animes. I really hate brutalist and Bahaus architecture, it looks like from a dystopian science fiction, so depressing. Almost as if there's a conspiracy to suppress the human spirit and cultural heritage through ugly architecture.
Tartarian? Warhammer?? Animes??? By God, does your mind make no distinction between high and low?
@@robinrehlinghaus1944 They all have the same general art/architecture style. It's a kind of monarchist society with traditional culture.
@@robinrehlinghaus1944 Well maybe we just want to go back to a fictional idealistic version of the 19th century. Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires on steroids.
I would add Beaux Arts, Edwardian, Palladian, Greek & Roman Classicism and Art Nouveau
Unfortunately the digital age has taken 'art' and used it for gaming purposes. Young people know more about aesthetics and design from games than from true higher forms of study and reasoning. If a young [person 'likes' a style of something they should get books and learn more about it from history. The digital age is a devilish double edged sword.
Impressive content, ThinkingWest. Eager to see your next upload from you. I hit the thumbs up button on your video. Keep up the fantastic work. Pugin's perspective on the moral implications of architecture is fascinating! In what ways do you think modern architectural practices could integrate his principles to address contemporary social issues?
Very informative✝️🙏🏻
Smash Modernismo...
Architecture definitely visualizes the state of the cultural and economical situation. For example, just recognize how ugly socialist/Stalinist architecture is, commensurate with the sad state of its society.
Yeah, they should've housed the millions of needy people in gothic-style palaces
What were his gripes with the other styles such as renaissance and baroque? do these fall under his points at 3:36?
Pugin was not a fan of the renaissance or baroque style at all. He viewed it, by the nature of its name too, as a revival of the pagan greco-roman style. The rival style in 'Contrasts' that Pugin despised was the Neo-classical style which was basically a more straight-forward renaissance of the classical style like the renaissance and baroque style.
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Please made a this type tallest homes please sir please
Interesting, though I personally find English Gothic to be a bit too austere. And prefer the much more exuberant French, Spanish and Italian Gothic.
In a similar vein, Spanish and Italian Baroque and German Rococo architecture have a similar level of exuberance.
Chipotle and car dealerships are is our new cultural backbone
Gothic Revival needs a revival
can i ask how do u find the drawings and photos u put in your videos?
Image search engines generally, but Wikimedia is a great source
Please made a this type home USA and UK please sir please
„If I build more fancy churches and monasteries, it will surely transform the heart of society!“
The Bible: …no.
„You must be born again.“ said the Lord Jesus Christ, it will not come by more beautiful buildings or good deeds in general, but by faith in the Lord Jesus sacrifice on the cross, and trust in His blood for salvation!
Augustus Pugin was a free*mason.
Those amazing cathedrals are much older than they say.
Was soll dieser Stern deutlich machen? What is this star supposed to make clear?
Free mason, built buildings for free. They "founded" those buildings. Built them for free .... right?
He converted to Catholicism tho?
an architecture lover AND a professional hater? awesome
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it is very symbolic that this decorator Pugin (and he was a decorator, not an architect. - he had no architectural education) had the last name Pugin - have pigeons ever been famous for their intelligence?))
by the way, the architecture of Gothic is borrowed from the East. even the crucifer at the top is a clove spice in precise construction, and the gargoyles are nothing other than Chinese dragons.. glory to Xi!
That stuff about Gothic architecture coming from the East is made up nonsense.
@@Aristocles22 you are simply uneducated)) study history and the history of architecture - but only together - separately you will not understand anything.. the fact that the pointed arch was borrowed from the East is generally accepted and no one hides, the fact that medieval European merchants traveled to the East is well known and the fact that Gothic was called barbaric architecture during the Renaissance is also an indisputable fact... in short - it is a pity to waste time on you, ignoramus))
@@Aristocles22 if there was no mutual influence of cultures then tell me where Greco-Buddhism came from and where the Christian Mongols came from in the Mongol Empire and at the same time tell me what Marco Polo was doing in China
@mozartwa1 Marco Polo didn't bring back any architecture from China. More to the point, his trip was long AFTER the emergence of Gothic Architecture in the 1100s.
@@Aristocles22 and who are you? an architectural historian, a cultural scientist, or just an architect interested in the history of art and architecture?... judging by your statements, it seems that you are either an engineer or an economist... maybe you can explain why Picasso's painting is more similar to African sculpture than to the painting of his European contemporaries?
as for Marco Polo - he was not the first to go there... and not the only one.. neither the Greeks nor the Romans had anything similar to Gothic. however, you can think as you like - but it offends me that a person who knows nothing at all makes categorical statements... - if you don't think so - say that you don't think so, and don't say that this is nonsense.. my statements did not appear out of nowhere
Look up en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street and tell me that doesn't look like something H.R. Giger would have designed. Then, note the purpose the building now serves. Maybe there is a connection between morality and architecture.