A 2011 photo of BNKR Arquitectura’s Sunset Chapel in Acapulco, Mexico.Image Courtesy of Esteban Suarez/Courtesy of Esteban Suarez

text by Dominic Green

“I do not know the miracle of faith,” modernist architect Le Corbusier confessed in 1961, “but I often experience that of ineffable space, which is the highest level of artistic emotion.” 

Beautifully photographed, and elegantly elucidated by James Pallister, “Sacred Spaces” is a field report from the cult of Corbusier. The 30 new religious buildings in this intriguing book represent every major faith, and the locales range from the forests of China to the fields of Germany, the suburbs of Bangladesh to the shores of San Francisco. Almost all of the designs use that most ineffable of space-making materials: concrete. The first surprise is that some of the results are beautiful. The second is that even the ugly designs are interesting.....Continue Reading

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