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what's after post-modernism?
Rita Novel 2005.03.22 14:16
church and synagogue
2005.03.22 10:26
Since learning that Le Corbusier's St. Pierre at Firminy-Vert is again under construction and slated for completion 2006, 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.
my first 3D CAD model of a Mosque
2005.03.22 12:06
You know that St. Pierre Hurva Synagogue model I just wrote about generating yesterday? Well, you know what? It looks just like a Mosque! Does that mean that Islam is wrapped in Christianity?
Heilige Weisheit, Holy Wisdom, Hagia Sophia wo bist du?
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