MArch RIBA Part II Dissertation
Under the guidance of Conservation Specialist Harriet Devlin (MBE)
It shall be focusing solely on cathedrals, because it is these buildings that, in most cases, allow cities to have their status. There is an increasing awareness of the significance and value of our heritage and of the cultural community we enjoy. Since cathedrals provide us with a sense of belonging, it has become crucial that they are preserved in a proper manner and to the most intricate of detail as necessary, even as in depth of the kind of material used in the conservation and restoration.
This study on the other hand shall not be a focus on how cathedrals of significance have been reused, but rather more focused on how the architecture has been maintained in terms of their forms and their
This study will ironically progress through time as the mystery of whether conservation and restoration architecture does remain in keeping with the history of place through investigation of case studies is unravelled.
BA Hons Dissertation
The question of whether the evolution of the urban landscape is bringing an end to the traditions of sacred architecture can be answered by studying two kinds of influence:
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the influence of religion and its sacred architecture on urban environments around it
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the influence of general architectural trends identifiable on religious buildings.
Sacred architecture is defined as any religious building’s architecture. An urban landscape is the study of traits, social patterns, physical environments and the town/city’s collective built structure.
Urban landscapes change with the evolving architecture adopted to create it. Changes include shape, layout and materials used to create buildings.
This would reveal if modern architecture and the evolution of the urban trends have perhaps created an end to the sacred architecture traditions and caused ethical controversy amongst religious communities. The debate here is whether modern day versions look better even though they may contradict sacred tradition, my intuition tells me there are those who may not agree.
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