So the video is funny and well-made, but then there is this comment:
The film shows the gray, dismal weather and depict the wintry streets in similar fashion. The architecture shown is nondescript dwellings and storefronts, whereas the very “churches on every corner” are actually better indications of the true material (and moreover spiritual) culture of the town. Many of these, replete with stone, brick, & onion domes, are quite beautiful to see and explore. They represent the myriad of ethnicities in the town.
Which leads to this point: the people in Parma are from many cultures: eastern European, Russian, Italian, German…many others. Entering a bar in Parma, one is beset with strong young men and breathtakingly beautiful women, descendants of those who made Cleveland…the steelworkers and the factory workers and the hardworking trades folk. Good, solid stock.
That’s the Spirit of the people of Parma, as I see it.
Christopher Lobas, Architect and Professor of Architecture, Kent State University
God damn architects.
