Church of Reconciliation
Writing
The Church of Reconciliation in San Antonio both acknowledges and extends a longstanding tradition of centrally planned churches. From Bramante's plan for St. Peter's or Borromini's Sant' Ivo to Eero Saarinen's Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, or Louis Kahn's Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York, the centralized plan has been called upon, not only to focus attention on a spiritual locus…
TSA Headquarters
Writing
Imagine the modernist Corbusian dream of the 1920s - spaciousness, light, health, and urbanity - a perch high above the city with sweeping views to hills and plains - a place surrounded by the sky yet blessed with a bit of the earth in the form of landscaped terraces occupying almost a third of the usable floor space. Then imagine almost the opposite – a Ruskinian reverence for craft, detail, and…