pynchonesque church

[David Morris]

On 10/12/06, Daniel Julius <daniel.julius at gmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bostoncityhall.jpg

The Boston City Hall that you linked to is actually a very close
reference by the architects to a much earlier work be Le Corbusier,
Convent of La Tourette.  Follow the link and you'll see it
immediately.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Convent_of_La_Tourette.html/cid_2463890.gbi

Le Corbusier's use of expressive monolithic concrete structures
pre-dates Brutalism, but he is said to be the inspiration for this
later-modernist style.  The American architect Paul Rudolf is most
famous for the style where he formed vertical corduroy-like ribs in
his very sculptural concrete structures which (ribs) he would then
take a jack-hammer to, creating an extremely rough texture.

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/rudolph/rudolph.html

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/rudolph/rudolph3.html

Another later Le Corbusier work, Ronchamp, is another amazingly poetic chapel:

http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Notre_Dame_du_Haut.html/cid_2399158.gbi

David Morris