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SIGAL Gallery

Opening Reception
Wednesday, January 14, 6 – 7:30 pm

Using Historic Congressional Cemetery as a theoretical site, students from The Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning will present design proposals for a rarely talked-about, yet intriguing topic that inevitably touches us all: architecture of loss, life, and learning.

Each project focuses on the emotional and spiritual dimensions of architecture expressed through color, light, materiality, and texture, characteristics thoughtfully balanced with the economical and functional requirements of this building type. The studio further explains, “The Aedes Mortis confronts death, mourning and loss head-on. The Aedificium Memoriarum presents an interesting challenge for designers to extract the essence of the poetic and the spiritual, to celebrate the figurative and literal weight of the gravestones, to fulfill the expectations and requirements of the conservation labs, and to address its “front yard” of the field of cemetery markers.”

The comprehensive studio, led by Associate Professor Julie Ju-Youn Kim, partnered with leading professionals and their firms to support goals of integration in the studio. The partners include Duncan Lyons, RIBA, Gensler; Anik Jhaveri, AIA, JACOBS; Scott Kilbourn, AIA, Perkins Eastman; Robert Berry, AIA, RTKL; Doug Dahlkemper, AIA, SmithGroupJJR; and Rod Garrett, FAIA, SOM.

This exhibition is organized and made possible by The Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning in cooperation with AIA|DC for the SIGAL Gallery with generous support from ABC Imaging.