Libeskind recently said Wren was (among) his favorites/
inspirations- thus i wondered what these influence may
be, if lacking iconography or massive building projects
of a type of building (museums as the new churches?).
Vaughn's link to the Spanish missions has me thinking,
though I thought that was Catholic missionaries which,
like 'the Mission' neighborhood in San Francisco, Calif.
is almost like an geographical infrastructure of symbols
while, along the way seem to be communities of what
was erased, the burial mounds (lower SF bay, eastside)
which almost vanishes everything that created 'place',
revealed when digging into ground, finding artifacts of
earlier eras, when it many places can come together,
and it is quite astonishing to consider how many of
the foundational stories are 'missing' or 'not there' in
everyday conscious or understanding of environments,
which may be reflected in mindsets, views of the world.
brian
On Thursday, April 8, 2004, at 08:49 AM, lauf-s wrote:
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inspirations- thus i wondered what these influence may
be, if lacking iconography or massive building projects
of a type of building (museums as the new churches?).
Vaughn's link to the Spanish missions has me thinking,
though I thought that was Catholic missionaries which,
like 'the Mission' neighborhood in San Francisco, Calif.
is almost like an geographical infrastructure of symbols
while, along the way seem to be communities of what
was erased, the burial mounds (lower SF bay, eastside)
which almost vanishes everything that created 'place',
revealed when digging into ground, finding artifacts of
earlier eras, when it many places can come together,
and it is quite astonishing to consider how many of
the foundational stories are 'missing' or 'not there' in
everyday conscious or understanding of environments,
which may be reflected in mindsets, views of the world.
brian
On Thursday, April 8, 2004, at 08:49 AM, lauf-s wrote:
'... The austere, white Protestant church in the seventeenth-century
neoclassical style of Christopher Wren (the fount of American church
design) is a temple to reason, with no images...'
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