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...Force Chapel...
...SORRY TO ADD CORRECTION TO YOUR WONDERFUL AIR FORCE CHAPEL COVERAGE [JULY 27]. WINDOW'S COLLAGE, DESIGNED ON FLOOR OF MY LIVING ROOM, MADE BY JUDSON STUDIOS OF LOS ANGELES, THE DALLES GLASS BY BLENKO GLASS CO. OF WEST VIRGINIA, NOT CHARTRES. WALTER A. NETSCH JR. SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL CHICAGO...
...Doodle. Architect Netsch of the Chicago branch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill began working on the chapel in 1954 when SOM got the job of designing the academy. But unlike other architects who have been dotting the country with churches of all sorts of imaginative shapes, Netsch had to do far more than satisfy one specific congregation, and one creed. He not only had to build a private place of worship for the cadets, he also had to create a national monument. Furthermore, his building would serve Protestants, Catholics and Jews. A single-spire motif would imply one religion...
From the very beginning, Netsch had ruled out what he calls "a supermarket cathedral"-a single chapel that can change faith at will, using gimmicks such as revolving altars. Each religion would have a chapel of its own. The Protestants, being in the majority, got the largest, and since the academy service is fairly formal, the chapel was endowed with lofty grandeur. The Roman Catholic chapel and the Jewish place of worship are underneath, which caused one Catholic chaplain to observe: "The Protestants are nearer to Heaven, but they need the head start." The Catholic chapel, with its gentle arches...
...Netsch tried to relate more to the mountains, he might very well have ended up clashing with the campus. And to Netsch the community is the main thing: it seems quite natural that the spires should also suggest giant wings, and even the hangar-like quality of the Protestant chapel interior seems in its way appropriate. But most important of all, the building's metallic majesty, visible across the countryside like the church spires of rural Europe, is in perfect harmony with the spirit of the academy. Its materials and basic forms are largely those of an airplane...