Friday, July 28, 2006

the start of catching up: photos of the church of the autostrada

now that we're home and have closer to normal digital authority, i'll try to kick off getting out a good little summary of the entire second half of the trip, i.e. post-rome. bare with me: we have 5.5GB of photos to wade through. to start, perhaps somewhat anti-climatically for most people, is a small presentation of a church built in the fascist modernist era, 1930's i believe, dedicated to the saints of the towns around florence, and dubbed "the church of the autostrada", which is like calling the morman temple "the cathedral of the beltway". for anyone still keeping score, michellucci (sp?) designed it, and if you think it's cool, try google image searching for corbusier's "rauchamp". this building was spectacular to visit.






1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think I can see I-495 off ramps and those privacy/anti-noise walls in the design of the church ...

- fpr

7:58 PM  

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