Cor Unum

A performance center, gathering place and liturgical space, Cor Unum was designed by renowned architect, Robert Venturi.  The building completes the vision of Stuart's original architect, Jean Labatut, under whom Venturi studied at Princeton University, and incorporates many of the design elements seen in the early architecture of the school.

The use of patterened glass windows in Cor Unum is one such example.  Consistent with Labatut's concept that each space should include a vista, opening it to the world outside, the Cor Unum windows, with their stylistic depictions of tree branches, draw nature into the space and enhance the sensation of a barely demarcated line between the natural world and the man-made world of the building.  The Cor Unum curtain, with multicolored tree branches stretching across the expanse of the stage, echoes this theme.