John Pawson

Or in the case of Grundtvig’s Church
in Copenhagen, when you carefully put
around five million yellow bricks together.
The modest dimensions of each of these
individual bricks remain clearly legible
across the exhilaratingly unadorned
elevations, in a composition that is at
once a tissue of endless repetition and
a seamless expression of pure verticality.
The church is the work of Peder Vilhelm
Jensen-Klint, who won a competition in
1913 with a design that synthesises the
typical floor plan and proportions of
Gothic architecture with the geometric
forms of Brick Expressionism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photography
Sam Gomez