A Belarus-based rendering studio, iddqd, have faithfully recreated Marcel Breuer's St. John's Abbey Church in a series of highly detailed images representing both the building's interior spaces and iconic external volume. The first in a long-term project called 'Unforgotten Heritage', this collection of drawings are complemented by a movie which shines a spotlight on a building which, according to the artists, "might otherwise be forgotten."
Commissioned by Abbot Baldwin Dworschak in 1950, the brief called upon twelve architects to consider designs for "a church which [would] be truly an architectural monument to the service of God." Marcel Breuer was commissioned in 1958 and the church was completed in 1961. According to the studio, a great deal of time was spent in cataloguing and visualising the innumerable details behind the building. The north-facing stained glass window façade—"one of the largest in the world"—is perhaps one of the most complex aspects of iddqd's film.
