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REPRESENTING THE TENSION BETWEEN NONDENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN AND SECULAR ENVIRONMENTS IN DESIGN

MITCHELL, JOHN ADAMS
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1083024252

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2004, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning: Architecture (Master of).
This thesis, Representing the Tension Between Nondenominational Christian and Secular Environments in Design, addresses the relationship between Christian and secular communities in a designed environment. It explores a deeply rooted aspect of American culture, one inbuilt by the Separation of Church and State clause. Whereas Christian and secular buildings both exist in America, and indeed examples exist of both functions existing together, most precedents advance an ideological bias from which the project was conceived. These cause more tension by advancing secular or Christian perspective, rather than creating an environment in which both exist and can interact in a neutral environment. The objective of this thesis is a building design that expresses the tension between the Christian and secular communities; that is, a building that recognizes secular space, religious space, while offering common space to facilitate interaction between the two realms. It attempts to represent positive as well as negative tension.
Nnamdi Elleh (Advisor)
90 p.
sacred and profane; church architecture; Christianity; Separation of Church and State

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  • MITCHELL, J. A. (2004). REPRESENTING THE TENSION BETWEEN NONDENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN AND SECULAR ENVIRONMENTS IN DESIGN [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1083024252

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • MITCHELL, JOHN. REPRESENTING THE TENSION BETWEEN NONDENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN AND SECULAR ENVIRONMENTS IN DESIGN. 2004. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1083024252.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • MITCHELL, JOHN. "REPRESENTING THE TENSION BETWEEN NONDENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN AND SECULAR ENVIRONMENTS IN DESIGN." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1083024252

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