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St. Ignatius Chapel at the Univeristy of Seattle By Duncan McRoberts |
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As a work of orthodox Modernism, none of its architectural characteristics transcend an industrial appearance.
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Our senses are the means by which we receive information. Without them, no information would pass to us; that is to say, there would be no knowledge, intuition or transcendence. It should be noted that in sensation, the corporal emerges as the core of subjective and objective cognition.
In terms of architecture, it is our aesthetic apprehension of the corporal that informs us, through our senses, of the cultural value and content of a building. Buildings invariably are signifiers, they reveal, represent, resemble and express. They are, without question, artifacts or physical proponents of larger paradigms.
What and how something is signified, is the most important question for architecture and for any community which builds...
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