Files
Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/32937
Publisher
North Dakota State University
Rights
NDSU policy 190.6.2
URI
https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
Abstract
How does architecture, in the built sense, influence humanity’s desire to connect with something beyond ourselves? What responsibility does an architect hold in that condition? Tracing history through religions, movements of culture and the subsequent architecture erected, we can see how various built forms simultaneously reflected and influenced people’s connection to worlds both earthly and celestial. Is there a chance, at this moment, to build upon our historical accomplishments toward a broader engagement that stirs the most fundamental longings within us? A chance to resurrect stories and analogies beyond the frames of traditional religious architecture in a poetic, ecumenical sense. This project proposes a solution to define architecture’s spiritual utility as we inevitably press forward through time, technology and science. It elicits an attempt to distinguish the nearly imperceivable thread that connects all of us, our poetic imagination, through built architecture at several locations across the world. Taking intersubjective doctrines, cults, creeds and ideologies of various cultures and casting them to the cosmos, this project seeks to question how architecture may continue to inspire our distinguished and communal desire for interconnection.
Recommended Citation
Gulbranson, Luke, "Architecture's Spiritual Utility in the 21st Century" (2022). Architecture Theses. 203.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/architecture-theses/203