Lux Nova Designer: EASTON+COMBS
Location: New York, NY
 In addressing the question of an environmental structure for the MoMA PS1 courtyard we were inspired by the story of an old material and its reinvention that profoundly affected the connection between social narrative and the environment. In 12th century Paris, the Abbey Saint Denis experienced a substantial reconstruction that included, for the first time, the use of polychromatic dyed glass to extend the narrative possibilities of painting into the surface of the apse window. Upon completion, Abbot Suger was so moved by the multicolored cast of light and its narrative power that he declared it the ‘Lux Nova’ or the ‘new light’. This was to become a primary architectural practice incorporated in the collective experience of the gothic period and beyond. → bustler.net Posted: 02/17/2010 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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