Since learning that Le Corbusier's St. Pierre at Firminy-Vert is again under
construction and slated for completion 2006 --
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=15638_0_24_0_M
-- I had been thinking about the 3D CAD model of this building design in
Quondam's collection. I was reminded of (a set of 1998 Quondam web pages
that exhibited) how the plan of St. Pierre fit very nicely into the
sanctuary of Louis Kahn's Hurva Synagogue.
Yesterday, I placed the model of St. Pierre inside the model of Hurva
Synagogue, and started rendering images of the results. I thought I was
really just playing until I thought about the architectural implications of
designing a Roman Catholic Church within a Jewish Synagogue. Would such an
architecture speak to how Christianity is more or less wrapped in Judaism?
And, given the nature of the Hurva design, there is every evocation of St.
Pierre being "wrapped with ruins."
And then I though of how I was doing all this playing the day after Palm
Sunday, like right after Jesus cleared out the Temple of all the
commercialism (and later in the week crucified for doing so).
Lots of images, and even some passages from Scripture, coming soon.
construction and slated for completion 2006 --
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=15638_0_24_0_M
-- I had been thinking about the 3D CAD model of this building design in
Quondam's collection. I was reminded of (a set of 1998 Quondam web pages
that exhibited) how the plan of St. Pierre fit very nicely into the
sanctuary of Louis Kahn's Hurva Synagogue.
Yesterday, I placed the model of St. Pierre inside the model of Hurva
Synagogue, and started rendering images of the results. I thought I was
really just playing until I thought about the architectural implications of
designing a Roman Catholic Church within a Jewish Synagogue. Would such an
architecture speak to how Christianity is more or less wrapped in Judaism?
And, given the nature of the Hurva design, there is every evocation of St.
Pierre being "wrapped with ruins."
And then I though of how I was doing all this playing the day after Palm
Sunday, like right after Jesus cleared out the Temple of all the
commercialism (and later in the week crucified for doing so).
Lots of images, and even some passages from Scripture, coming soon.