page_title: Carr Memorial Chapel
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Carr Memorial Chapel / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: front view of chapel
context_page_description: Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior, “God Box, ” is a modest, one-story brick building situated near the intersection of Michigan Avenue and 32nd Street on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago, Illinois. Notably, this is the only nonsecular structure designed by German-American modern architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who at the time served as the director of the School of Architecture.
  Bishop Wallace Conkling of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago proposed the construction of the chapel in the late 1940s with the notion that it would be a “great educational project of the atomic age.” IIT's religious and spiritual organizations currently use the “God Box" as a “center of campus spiritual life" for meditation, weekly services, and other meetings.
context_section_description: Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel is a simple, unadorned rectangular box-like structure with a horizontally level roof sitting on a steel frame and a concrete layer.
  Below the black steel cornice, there are several layers of uniform, load-bearing yellow bricks. The front and back of the chapel contain plate glass set in thin, black steel frames. The interior only has two sources of lighting: natural from the front entrance and artificial from the ceilings of the side walls. The dark terrazzo flooring and lack of quintessential religious decorations direct the focus to the thin stainless steel crucifix against Shantung silk curtains. An altar and its platform of solid Roman travertine sit below the cross.
caption: Carr Chapel in 2015 [8]
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