Malwina Jagoda
Malwina Jagoda voted up Didge Doo's answer
Opinions on Religious architecture? the way santcuaries are built,to make us feel the way they do-loving,peaceful and yet just a tiny bit afraid.In which way are we manipulated by archit. to feel so emotional

I can't say I'm keen on cathedrals and the like, but some of the old churches are beautiful.

I used to visit an old church occasionally during my lunch hour. Well, at 200 years old that's pretty old by Australian standards. (Anything older than that would have just been a didgeridoo played in the twilight.)

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Malwina Jagoda
Malwina Jagoda voted up Virginia Lou's answer
Opinions on Religious architecture? the way santcuaries are built,to make us feel the way they do-loving,peaceful and yet just a tiny bit afraid.In which way are we manipulated by archit. to feel so emotional

Dear Eta Er,

I just watched a very interesting YouTube series on Mandelbrot sets. The suggestion there was that cathedrals are often constructed along the lines of fractal geometry, which, through iteration, can reflect the very composition of the human consciousness...thus eliciting a sense of awe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Y6xpeQK-w

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