Today at 1pm EST: The sacred, the profane, and Aalto in Brooklyn. Zoom link.
With Sofia Singler, Kirk Gastinger, Trey Trahan and Eva Hagberg
Hello,
We are happy to report we have more than a hundred and twenty people registered for our lunchtime conversation today.
There is a lot to discuss, but because it is lunch, and a work day, and zoom, we will try to start promptly at 1pm and end promptly at 2pm.
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Finally, most of you filled out our fun registration survey, and we are going to share a few replies here:
Advance Questions
Where were these drawings found and what's the church?
Can religion advance community engagement in a fragmented society like today by building structures?
This is my own obsession and basis for doctoral research, so I’d love to hear any thoughts on it: how does the continued relevance of sacred architecture complicate the “secularization hypothesis,” i.e., the idea that modernity is anti-religious?
How does this project transcend--or fall prey to--the allure of "lost" (and "found") art?
How can Aalto help us confront the multiple crisis of capitalism and the failure of architecture and the academy to adequately confront these issues? Does Aalto open up a space for radical practice and pedagogy?
Who was right: Abbot Suger or Bernard of Clairvaux?
Favorite sacred building
Temppeliaukio Kirkko
Scarpa Brion Tomb
Church on the water by Tadao Ando
The Vatiala Funeral Chapel by Viljo Revell
Mosque of Ibn Tulun, 875
Bagsværd Church
Mesa Verde
Maria, Queen of Peace, Neviges, Germany, Gottfried Böhm
Bahái Temple, Wilmette, IL
Church of Muurame
Firestone Baars Chapel by Eero Saarinen
Moritzkirche by John Pawson
Mies's Seagrams
Table Mountain
A small mud-office in India
Favorite profane building
Also, a small mud-office in India
US Steel Tower, Pittsburgh
AT&T long lines building
Black Rock
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Hong Kong Shanghai Bank, Foster
Amsterdamse School Krul
Venturi's Firestation #4
Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
Danteum (Terragni, unbuilt)
30 Hudson Yards
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Sun City, Paris
Museum of sex
Kansas City Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Thompson Center, Chicago, IL (...ah, the Midwest...heartland of the sacred and the profane...)
Favorite Aalto Building
Jyvalaska Workers' Club, 1925
Kunsten Museum of Art, Aalborg
Paimio Sanitorium
Aalto Museum Jyväskylä
Muuratsalo brick house (x2)
Baker House, MIT, Cambridge. MA
Säynätsalo Town Hall (x3)
Muuratsalo Experimental House
Riola Church
Church of three crosses
This is a hard one as there are so many. For tonight, Villa Mairea
Favorite Brooklyn Building
One John Street
Brownstones as a type
Brooklyn Heights esplanade
Coignet Stone Building in Gowanus
Pioneer Works
Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower
Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
Industry City
Jamaica Library
Unbuilt Aalto renovation
Barclays Center (sorry)
Gaping at the lack of humility of all the new residential buildings