Today, we first visited the Jubilee Church by Richard Meier.

Getting there was via a tram and a bus...we didn't quite understand the printed instructions on the brochure give to us by the hostile tourist information, who brusquely told us to read the instructions when we asked them to elaborate. Service. Was. Bad. Finally, I had to ask a Pastor of African origin who seemed to understand Italian. He graciously helped me ask the station staff for help. We were then told to go to some hidden tram stop to take the tram to another location where we were to take a bus. Guess minorities are more likely to help each other out, especially when one is a priest/pastor?

Before too long we arrived at the church.

Despite much disappointment for my friends, I for one felt that it was interesting. This church marks a 1st in Meier's works of well proportioned rectilinear white cubes, having three curvilinear 'sails', or so he calls them, which represent the Trinity of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as protective 'sails' of the congregation. It's setting in the heartland is expressive of the church's evangelical stance.

Following the Jubilee church, we decided to look for Bramante's Tempietto, decidedly one of Renaissance's most 'perfect' temple. We found it after much walking and taking in of 'irrelevant' sights. But what was the most interesting find at the USC Communication Institute, where the Tempietto was located, was the chapel next to it, which was open. It was evening, and the chancel of the chapel was incidentally, intentionally I should think, facing the western sun, which afforded such luxurient rays of sun to penetrate the dim cavenous interior of the chapel. I decided to take a private tour of the empty chapel and found the choir, which is at the chancel area, to be quite inviting. I don't know what came over me when I started to sing a hymn. My friends told me that my voice from the choir had almost no distortion, which is altogether different than the sounds from the nave, which were distorted by excessive echoes. It was amazing to be able to sing in it, it was almost divine. The acoustics were amazing.

Dinner tonight was instant noodles, after much waiting to use the kitchen.