129. Comparing Connections in the Ethosphere with Ambrose Gillick (Part II)

Original Drawing by Tori Haynes

This week, we are joined once again with Ambrose Gillick for Part II of Comparting Connections in the Ethosphere. In this episode, Gillick shares his thoughts on the connections of his two interests in sacred architecture and the modalities and politics of design and the city influence that connects to architecture trends.

Timestamp Outline 

0:00    Intro & recap

3:00    How do you connect your two interests in the carious modalities and politics of design and the city influence vs. sacred architecture and urban churches?

07:54 The vernacular: Rudolf Otto and the numinous; “the ‘otherness of sacred space’ plus Mircea Eliade’s “The Sacred & the Profane” defining the mindset of the sacredly-orientated person

11:40    Dorothy Day and Peter Moran and The Catholic Worker Movement: “Living in the gaps to reconstruct a new civilization with a 3-fold process: CULT to CULTIVATION and ending with CULTURE” - Dorothy Day

14:35 Sadh Nagar: the snake, the temple, and sacred architecture

16:39 “effective ‘pro-peaux architecture’ endangering the capacity of bottom-up culture” AG

23:15 “….their whole interpretation of reality is infused by sacred space, and the temples become axial points/orientation points within a morphus space. For non-sacred man, the world becomes deeply a morphus. I think that’s where modernism comes from” AG

24:52 Manfred Max-Neef: building on the human-scale development

29:37 “Where the modernist project fell down” AG

30:02 “What one thing is to be sensitive to the working classes (everyday man’s sacred needs)?” “As part of your own self-actualization, there has to be a way to re-make things that make sense to you as an architect” VP

37:14 “Humble without specialized knowledges”?

39:44 Ambrose’s project: Public play

42:23 ‘Levels of cultures laces and skewed by power and money” VP