New Churches

from Katarxis No. 2 New Hall  Church and Baptistery, Sauvie Island, Oregon by Duncan McCallum McRoberts New Sacred Architecture  Chapel of Our Lady of Corpus Christi by Michael Imber Architects Chapel of Our Lady of Corpus Christi Ground Floor Plan Michael Imber Architects Proposed  Chapel of Saint Thomas Aquinas College by Michael Imber Architects Proposed  Chapel of Saint Thomas Aquinas College by Michael Imber Architects "......that the sanctity of the Temple is protected from all terrestrian corruption, and that because of the fact that the architectural plan of the Temple is the work of the gods, and consequently is in the vicinity of the gods, in Heaven. The transcendant models of the Temples benefit from a spiritual, uncorrupted and celestial existence. By means of the divine grace man has access to the fulgurant vision of these models, and he then dedicates himself  to reproduce them on earth." Mircea Eliade "The Sacred and the Profane" Gesu Church by John Blatteau Architects New Church in Miami, Florida by Duany & Plater-Zyberk Trinity Church, Vero Beach, Florida by Scott Merrill and Georg Pastor Igreja Da Azoia, Sintra, Portugal by José Cornélio da Silva and José Franqueira Baganha (Photo by J. C. da Silva & J. F. Baganha)  Interior of Igreja Da Azoia, Sintra, Portugal by José Cornélio da Silva and José Franqueira Baganha (Photo by the Architects)

"The ancient Temple builders knew the meaning of contemporaneity. They gave their temples the proportions of of the cosmos, and they planned to allow for changes in the order of heavenly creations." Hassan Fathy

New Oratory in Chicago, Section of Entrance Tholos by William Heyer New Oratory in  Chicago  Oratory of Saint Philip of the Loop, Chicago by William Heyer   The oratory of Saint Philip in the Loop  by architect William Heyer is located in the core of historic Chicago. The program includes the Oratory, the 'Oratorium Parvum' (daily chapel above the entry residences, refectory, library, court, bookstore, subway station, belting shops, theatre, and student music school. The Oratory of Saint Philip of the Loop, Urban Context by William Heyer Plan of the Oratory of Saint Philip of the Loop, Chicago By William Heyer "Essential for something to be called a religious activity is its capacity to allow the participant to acknowledge that there is something superior to himself which he cannot explain and whose hold he cannot resist." Carroll William Westfall "Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism" (Published at Yale University Press)