Rick Joy: chapel, Austin, USA.Though a native of Maine, Rick Joy has, since the mid '80s, studied, lived and worked in Tucson, near the Mexican border. In exchanging the temperate eastern seaboard for the more extreme high desert climes of Arizona, Joy, like generations of American artists v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. landscape and light. Having worked with Will Bruder Will Bruder (born in 1946 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American architect most active in the American southwest. His ability to address the requirements of site, user experience, craftsmanship, and energy conservation, while still producing formally accomplished and beautiful , Joy now runs his own small practice in Tucson. Though his work is invariably in·var·i·a·ble adj. Not changing or subject to change; constant. in·var  i·a·bil modestly scaled (houses, studios, offices), its sobriety, economy and curiously sensual engagement with nature memorably distils the particular with the universal. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This project for a campus chapel still finds him in the Southwest, but in Austin, Texas. Founded in 1885, St Edward's University is a private, Catholic, independent liberal arts college Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge with around 5200 students. In 1999, a 10-year masterplan was initiated to meet changing needs of the growing campus. As student enrolment and the number of undergraduates living on campus has increased, worship services and Campus Ministry programmes have outgrown the space afforded to them. Rick Joy's new chapel complex will also provide a home for the Holy Cross Institute which undertakes mission-based programmes, research and training for the laity who serve as administrators and educators. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new chapel will be located at the heart of the campus, just east of Sorin Hall. Roughly oval in plan, with gently inclined walls of uncoursed limestone rubble, the chapel cradles its congregation in a rough yet tender embrace. An entrance court with a reflecting pool leads into the womblike interior, illuminated by dramatic vertical shafts of daylight. The Holy Cross Institute is split into two simple orthogonal volumes arranged around a grove of trees. Joy's simple, dignified architecture expresses and embodies the university's Catholic identity, connecting a profound sense of the spiritual with the everyday. C. S. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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