FILM / VIDEO

Richard Meier in Rome: Building a Church in a City of Churches

Color / 58 minutes / 2005
Michael Blackwood Productions
Thursday 6 December, 11:45 a.m. and 5:15 p.m.

Building a church in Rome is a challenge, but Richard Meier's Jubilee Church meets this challenge comfortably. Thus Meire joins Bernini, Borromini, and the other architects of the great churches of Rome with a white modernist design, his first ecclesiastical building. Richard Meier gives a tour of his church that resembles soaring white sails. Three curved walls separate three distinct spaces: the main santuary, the weekday chapel and the baptistery, each with its own entrance. As a contrast, he shows us his favorite churches in Rome by his famous colleagues from earlier times.

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