All tagged Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Mies van der Rohe’s own design for a house of worship is found on the Illinois Institute of Technology’s main campus in Bronzeville. It is a simple brick box with load-bearing walls. Jack Siegel discusses the Carr Chapel and his image of it. He also includes a number of other images that he has made of other Chicago-area houses of worship.
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Before last night's performance at the Logan Center by Fred Hersch, we walked over to Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on the University of Chicago campus with technical camera and 23mm Rodenstock lens in hand. Would have liked some snow on the ground, but you take what you can get. Turns out, I guessed correctly.