Tutor: François Blanciak
Felicity May, ‘Losing Our Religion’. Modern architecture, like the modern world, has distanced itself from the sacred. Productivity and technological developments, conditions of the turbocharged economy, have become the dominant spirit of the age. The sacred has been modern cities. To experience something as sacred is to experience a moment of transcendence, a suspension of the everyday. Yet within the profanity of our urban environments, what sense can someone
space for public use, regardless of religion or spirituality. Establishing the ground for translating the notion of neutral and generic sacred space into built form. An investigation into the possibility of non-denominational sacred space for the practice of secular liturgy.
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