Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 6.2. Luigi Moretti, Sancta Maria Mater Ecclesiae, 1965–1970. Design drawings. Central State Archive, Rome, Luigi W. Moretti Archive, 70/275/68OR.

FIGURE 6.3. Luigi Moretti, Sancta Maria Mater Ecclesiae, 1965–1970. Design drawings. Central State Archive, Rome, Luigi W. Moretti Archive, 70/275/67OR.

Moretti’s description of the church in his brief begins with the entry. Many drawings show the architect working out in great detail some way to understand and control the phenomenological experience of moving into and through the church (figures 6.2 and 6.3). One enters underneath a broad covering and then through a zone of constriction or spatial compression, moves through a momentary reprieve or breath and on through another, lesser place of compression, and then bursts out into the interior of the church. Beyond a mere attempt to orchestrate a dramatic entry, Moretti suggests a sort of analogue, mapping the procession onto a typical plan of a traditional Latin-cross church (figure 6.3). Here he lists the successive stages of a downright historically conditioned model, formally represented in abstract plan forms, but translates them into a new form that is structured by spatial experience and the notion of “space-light.” In the final package of presentation material for the design, he distills these considerations into a set of conceptual diagrams that seek to explain how various levels and qualities of light help to define the concatenation of zones within the church as well as to coordinate with and reinforce the spatial compression-expansion scheme that seeks to leave behind the external world and prepare for the “magical sacred space” of the assembly.90 Whereas “sacred space” alone would normally imply some governing ideal other than the gathered assembly, something more akin to domus dei than to domus ecclesiae, Moretti is intent upon holding them together.

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