
96 — Andrea Palladio 6 — Venetian Churches
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The Modern Church
There are some pretty influential ideas going round about how a modern church should be designed, and i do think that his designes has taken a lot of those on board. There's a big work on it from the 15 sixties by a cardinal called carlo boromeo am which is sort of generally taken to kind of crystallize what the principals it is. The light comes in from things like the dome, but also from high up thermal windows, which are these arched windows with columns in them. Her, so when you are in the centre, you don't really, unless you look sideways,you don't see out of the window. You just have the light filling the
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