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Designed by world-renowned architect, Philip Johnson, the Roofless Church was completed in 1960 in the Meis Van Der Rohe International Style with a postmodern Johnsonian interpretation. It is an exquisitely proportioned outdoor room with objects in a landscape. It is a brick-walled space, but open to the sky, with a shingled dome structure acting as the focal point and canopy for a Jaques Lipchitz bronze sculpture. Lipchitz also created the monumental entry gate and doors. The patron who commissioned this structure did not want a roof on the church, as �all religions hold the heavens in common.� Philip Johnson�s Roofless Church won the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1960. (https://visitnewharmony.com/playexplore_cpt/philip-johnsons-roofless-church/) At 420 North St., the Roofless Church was commissioned by Jane Blaffer Owen and is non-denominational, but operated under the auspices of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis.

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