Maryknoll Architecture

Above, images of a church building that "melds that Churrigueresque touch with Chinese traditional architecture, appropriate as Maryknoll was then famous for its missions in the Far East," and another that "melds a rubbly-faced Romanesque reminiscent in some ways of the more dramatic constructions of the National Park Service with Chinese curl-eaved roofs, green tiles and bright vermilion columns, a wonderful bit of imagination" — An Instance of Inculturated Traditional Architecture.

Comments Matthew Alderman of the California church buildings above, "Given the emphasis the designers of Oakland Cathedral placed on their city's and diocese's Pacific Rim orientation and diverse ethnography, it is a pity that they did not seek to combine those riches rather than opt for something wholly alien to both the grandeur of the Spanish Baroque and the refined ornament and bright color of the East."