Religion has a way of elevating architecture beyond utility, rendering buildings that assert themselves upon the landscape with a sense... Read More
Religion has a way of elevating architecture beyond utility, rendering buildings that assert themselves upon the landscape with a sense of spectacle. My project, Decay and Devotion, presents these churches, regardless of denomination, as fixtures of the American Southern landscape and as objects of sustained reverence. It is the tension between these sanctified spaces and their disparate surroundings—be it a nuclear power plant or a wall of kudzu—that unsettles and intrigues.