Architectural history essay,

Chen

安藤忠雄

Tadao Ando

1989

The Church of the Light is the main chapel of the Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church, a member church of the United Church of Christ in Japan. It was built in 1989, in the city of Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture. This building is one of the most famous designs of Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Tadao Ando often uses Zen philosophies when conceptualizing his structures. One theme he expresses in this work is the dual nature of existence. The space of the chapel is defined by light, the strong contrast between light and solid.

In the chapel light enters from behind the altar from a cross cut in the concrete wall that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and horizontally from wall to wall, aligning perfectly with the joints in the concrete.

St. Peter's Basilica Church

Donato Bramante

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger

Michelangelo

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Giacomo della Porta

Carlo Maderno

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Carlo Fontana

18 April 1506 Groundbreaking

18 November  1626 Complete

It is the Catholic sacred place of the Vatican. It was built between 1506 and 1626 and is one of the important symbols of the Catholic Church. As the world's most outstanding Renaissance building and largest church, it covers an area of ​​23,000 square meters and can accommodate more than 60,000 people. The center of the church is 42 meters in diameter and about 138 meters high. In front is St. Peter. Plaza and Concord Avenue.

In 1503, Pope Juliet II decided to rebuild St. Peter's Cathedral and appointed Donato

Bramante as the chief designer. The main hall was built on April 18, 1506 and was

announced in 1626. What you saw in St. Peter's Basilica.

The reason why I choose those two building is because Two different periods of Catholic

churches have different architectural styles, Tadao Ando is focus on the national nature

for the building. St. Peter's Basilica Church is temple for the Catholic, so the

architects for St. Peter's Basilica Church, they are more focus on the history and tradition, so on the roof have a lot of art work on it.