Houses of the Holy
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Phoenix Envy
Skip Sedona and forget the Grand Canyon? Architect Will Bruder leads us on a journey through slow food and rapid development in Phoenix, Arizona.
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The View From Phoenix
Earlier this week, I spent two days in Phoenix, reporting a story for Dwell's upcoming December/January issue. My second afternoon, local architects Cy Keener and Jay Atherton offered to take me on…
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Holy Table
To place items on a table: that's one way to go about it. However as of late, tables have been cropping up with the added—or subtracted, rather—element of a hole in the table's surface…
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Modern Phoenix Week
This year's event spotlights the urgent need to discuss and document the Valley's endangered pool of world-class midcentury modern architecture. The central event of the week, the Founding Fathers…
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Return to Paradise–The 6th Annual Modern Phoenix Home Tour and Expo 2010
For the sixth year in a row ModernPhoenix.net will host its popular annual Modern Home Tour and Expo in collaboration with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA). The weeklong series of…
Hi! The article is very interesting. But no slideshow for this? :)
Pauline, thanks for noticing! We've updated it---check out the slideshow above.
The house is nice, but the extreme lack of shade, I am sure is unbearable. i can only hope that the western exposure was contemplated by the design team.
Believe it or not - the house itself is quite comfortable cooling wise - even during the summer months. I had the opportunity to tour it while I was a student at Brophy - it is quite an impressive place. The lush vegitation adds some extra shade to help shield the house from the sun in addition to the designers fantastic planning and use of building materials.
I love this structure, even more so St. Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel, it truly encloses senses of sanctity, awe and peacefulness. Many Catholic churches especially modern ones have embraced the ideas of sparseness and honesty of materials which seems natural considering the orders of priests who preside and live in these structures. Two of my favorite modern churches are: Cistercian Abbey - Irving, TX St. Basil Catholic Chruch - Los Angeles, CA (at the corner of Wilshire and Kingsley) Both of these churches preserve old and new traditions and are just fantastic works of modern architecture.
Modernism and the Jesuit order seem a natural fit when viewing the pictures. The serenity and functional sparsity must facilitate a contemplative life. Kudos to the Jesuit order for allowing the architects to find such an expressive, modern solution.
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