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...Architect Kevin Roche's most delightful buildings does not look like a building at all. It is California's Oakland Museum, which is tucked under a lush terraced garden. Roche's United Nations Plaza Hotel and office tower in Manhattan, on the other hand, is an icy glass sculpture of almost overbearing assertiveness. His Power Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Michigan, with its innovative stage, codesigned by the late Jo Mielziner, seems as enchanting as the Petit Trianon in Versailles. His 23-story Knights of Columbus headquarters, suspended between four massive columns, which...
...most decisive influence on him at the time was Eero Saarinen, son of the eminent Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen. The young Saarinen had just opened his independent practice in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Roche and Dinkeloo, an architect who was a genius at structural engineering, joined the firm at about the same time...
...were the years of Christian education, classrooms and playgrounds," says Architect David K. Cooper, 28, who designed the Salem Baptist Church, Orland Park, Ill., and St. John the Baptist Church in Winfield, Ill. "The '70s were the years of Christian fellowship and multiple-purpose meetingrooms. Now, in the '80s, it seems, the emphasis is on worship...
Congregations seldom take their architect's first inspiration as gospel any more. Building committees do much soul searching about their needs. To develop a building program, says Architect Pietro Belluschi, is often in effect "to explore our relationship with God and to search for an understanding of the nature of religion as an institution." Belluschi, dean emeritus of the School of Architecture and Planning at M.I.T., is famous for, among other things, his simple, reverent churches in Oregon...
...Architect Percival Goodman, who has designed more than 50 religious and community buildings in the U.S., including handsome synagogues in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Michigan, the religious building of the future will be "modest in size and frugal in use of materials...