Immediately after the schematic design in November 1948, the design effort continued through the working design concluded in June 1950 and the subsequent detailed construction instruction design, those which include dome installation over the sanctuary, the crypt design for adoration, the fenestration, and the tower design, which are impressive manifests we see in the built work. This paper depicts the architect’s creative and strategic design thinking in these phases through the analysis of formal manipulations observed from the sketches and drawings that had made until just before the dedication of the cathedral on August 6, 1954.
