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The church at Las Condes

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". . . This <strong>church</strong> evokes the desert, not only for a<br />

romantic and superficial resemblance (a figur<strong>at</strong>ive ^^^^^^^E "^<br />

represent<strong>at</strong>ion of some of its elements), but for an<br />

equivalence of a purifying effect in our soul."<br />

We desired to reproduce its silence, its simplicity,<br />

its nakedness, its vastness, its ascetism — in one<br />

word: <strong>at</strong>mosphere.<br />

This is the reason for the large white cubes, the<br />

sharp edges, the rough walls. Th<strong>at</strong> is why we<br />

have closed the exterior, and<br />

."<br />

interior . .<br />

turned towards the<br />

"... Esta iglesia evoca el desierto, no solamente<br />

gracias a tinu romántica y superficial semejanza {una<br />

representación figurada de algunos de sus elementos)<br />

pero a la eijuivalencia de un efecto purificante en<br />

nuestra alma ..."<br />

"... Quisiéramos reproducir su silencio, su simplicidad,<br />

su desnudez, su amplitud, su ascetismo— en<br />

una palabra: su <strong>at</strong>mósfera ..."<br />

"... Esta es la razón de los grandes cubos blancos,<br />

los bordes angulosos, los rústicos muros. Es por lo ^^^^^^r^<br />

que hemos dejado el exterior y nos hemos vuelto ^^^^^R£i^<br />

hacia el interior ..."<br />

¿^íl^j0¿^

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