From Irving Gill and Carleton Winslow and from Renzo Zecchetto and David Pfeifer, region's architect have embraced designing distinctive houses of worship
Ascend toward the sound and as the music swells you’ll enter a light-filled sanctuary half the size of a football field. Here is a cloistered Shangri-La with seating for 1,000, between banks of colored glass and with a red carpet that leads toward a modest altar and a vista of gray-green landscape. On a weekday afternoon, you might even spot organist Jaebon Hwang, a diminutive figure seated at a console, sending sacred music through 6,092 pipes.
Architect David Pfeifer is a partner at Domus Studio in San Diego, which is named for its forefather Lou Dominy. The firm has more than 300 credits for sacred buildings including Mater Dei Catholic Church in Otay Mesa, San Dieguito United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito, Solana Beach Presbyterian and Sacred Heart in Coronado, which is an expansion of a 1920 Irving Gill design.
Zecchetto, whose San Diego projects date back three decades to his work with architect Charles Moore on the Church of the Nativity in Fairbanks Ranch, said that the essence of his designs is “manipulating space and light. The interesting light at St. Thomas More comes from the west, but the west also has a busy road.”
“When I started out here, concrete was resisted but has gotten more and more use in the U.S.,” said Zecchetto, who was born in Santiago, Chile, and as a child attended services at an early-1960s Benedictine monastery chapel there — a sleek white concrete building co-designed by that parish’s Father Guarda.
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