I fully share Daniel Cilia’s and Conrad Thake’s call for the protection  of Ġuzè D’Amato’s landmark house in Triq il-Kastell, Victoria.

The house deserves a conservation order as one of the very few instances of good architecture in post-World War II Gozo.

It is also an important late example of the stylistic and civil engineering idiosyncrasies of this prolific architect whose many buildings helped shape the architectural profile of 20th century Malta and its built landscape.

The house (both its streetelevation and more so its interior articulation) deserve scheduling in the cultural heritage listand not demolition.

The Times of Malta feature (April 18) also mentions D’Amato’s first and, in my considered opinion, most iconic building, the Paola parish church. I therefore take the opportunity to put on record my dismay at the ill-advised    “decorative” works currently in progress  that are debasing the classical idiom of the interior.

They can only be described as a glorification of bad taste. In my history of art classes I several times refer to what I call “the immorality of bad taste”. What is taking place at the Paola parish church is one very sad example. It is high time that the ecclesiastical authorities put an immediate end to the charade before more artistic damage takes place.