{"id":262,"date":"2015-04-14T21:19:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-04-14T21:19:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:19:34","slug":"vinyl-plexiglas-neon-venturi-scott-browns-transformation-of-st-francis-de-sales-a-revealing-history-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/2015\/04\/14\/vinyl-plexiglas-neon-venturi-scott-browns-transformation-of-st-francis-de-sales-a-revealing-history-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl, Plexiglas &#038; Neon: Venturi, Scott Brown\u2019s Transformation of St. Francis de Sales \u2013 a revealing history &#038; conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-05-07-st-francis-03-bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-263\" src=\"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-05-07-st-francis-03-bw.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"2015-05-07 St Francis 03 bw\" width=\"556\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 7, 2015 @ 6:00 p.m.<br \/>\nAuditorium of St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church<br \/>\n4625 Springfield Ave., University City, Philadelphia<br \/>\nFree and open to the public.\u00a0 No registration required.<\/p>\n<p>In 1969, the Church of St. Francis de Sales \u2013 a landmark church in the Byzantine Revival style (Henry Dagit; 1907-08) \u2013 reopened after alterations that addressed changes to the Catholic Mass. Comprising elements built of vinyl, Plexiglas, and neon, the design by Robert Venturi &amp; Denise Scott Brown was radical, controversial, and removed within a year by the parish. Now, after over 45 years, join us for a revealing conversation and tour about the project\u2019s conception, execution, and the firestorm that ensued.<\/p>\n<p>Landscape architect, <strong>Sue Weiler<\/strong>, will provide an introductory tour of the architecture of St. Francis de Sales, including its magnificent Guastavino dome; <strong>William Whitaker<\/strong>, curator of the Venturi, Scott Brown Collection at Penn\u2019s Architectural Archives, will talk about the VSB design and the architecture of the period; and <strong>Father John McNamee<\/strong>, parish priest at the time of the change, will recall his role as pastor and client during a time of social change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, May 7, 2015 @ 6:00 p.m. Auditorium of St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church 4625 Springfield Ave., University City, Philadelphia Free and open to the public.\u00a0 No registration required. In 1969, the Church of St. Francis de Sales \u2013 a landmark church in the Byzantine Revival style (Henry Dagit; 1907-08) \u2013 reopened after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,20,21],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-modern-philadelphia","tag-modernism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8UMFt-4e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}