“Simplicity,” says John Pawson, “allows us to focus on the things that matter.” The British architect's “minimalist” renovation of the Catholic church of St. Moritz in Augsburg, Germany, embodies that idea. Stark white walls, a pale limestone floor, and finely crafted oak joinery give a harmonious expression to the diverse parts of a building formed in a thousand-year process of addition and subtraction, but also serve the project's greater purposes: to strengthen the connection between the architecture and the rituals of the church, and to engender a sense of the sacred.
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