Intro

On places of ritual.

Architect Pier Paolo Tamburelli talks to Alex about his project to catalogue modern wonders – structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly.

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• How has architecture lost its ritual dimension?

• Why are these "modern wonders" kitsch? And why are they found the world over, from Munich to Malaysia, South Dakota to Dakar?

• Do 'wonders' speak to a world where places remain distinct, and where conflicts and history seem to have returned?

• Are disillusioned and cynical postmodern subjects searching for wonder?

• Can architecture rebuild society?

Links:

• Wonders of the Modern World, Arch+, issue 259

• Wonders of the Modern World: Notes for a Research Programme, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Arch+ (pdf attached in patreon)

• What's wrong with the primitive hut?, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, San Rocco (pdf attached in patreon)