Beyond walls and altars: Shaping Spiritual Landscapes in the Modernist Chapel Potentiality, Embodied Search for Transformation, Architectural Evolution of Spiritual Space

This study examines the complex interplay of utopian vision, embodied experience, and social change within the context of modernistic religious architecture. Using Manfred Tafuri's critique of architectural utopianism (1976) and Giorgio Agamben's potentiality theory (2004) as a framework, the thesis analyzes two seminal structures: Peter Zumthor...

Harde stad, zachte stad: Moderne architectuur en de antropologie van een naoorlogse wijk

There is something irrevocable in architecture. In contrast with a painting or a musical play, one cannot alter an architectural work of art other than by blowing it up or pulling it down. Streets, buildings, squares and parks are part of the hard, physical environment in which we organize our lives. But why conceptualize architecture as a...