A California church is reborn with uncanny light.
From the first day, light has been the fundamental metaphor of religious revelation and a raw material with which architects have long shaped religious space. The first rays of dawn still crack through temples in Egypt and the Druidic monoliths in Stonehenge, Divine light filters through stained-gla...
| Publicado en: | Architectural Record Vol. 191; no. 7; pp. 69 - 72 |
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