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Sacred Spaces

In many educational settlements, chapels and churches were built first -- even before libraries and classrooms -- a home for christenings, weddings, graduations and solemnization.   Chapels remain a gathering place for solitude. communal reflection upon the meaning of our longing. Today at 15:00 UTC we walk through some of these.

Mar 29, 2024

Shenandoah

Mysterious ancestral melody from European North American folk tradition performed here by the lads from King's. "Choral Favourites From Cambridge" is a celebration of choral music throughout the ages and around the world. Its track list spans more than 400 years of composition from Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, America and China.

Mar 29, 2024

History of Western Civilization Told Through the Acoustics of its Worship Spaces

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Mar 29, 2024

United State Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel

Inspired by chapels at Sainte-Chapelle in France and the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Italy, architect Walter Netsch stacked the spaces on two main levels with each of the gathering places for each of the Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Buddhist followers having their own entrances.

Mar 29, 2024

Quadrivium: Spring

Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. By design titles are unstable, time-sensitive and copyright protected. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.

Mar 29, 2024

Duncan Stroik Architect

"Architecture should strive to be an expression of order and harmony, and above all, a reflection of the divine" -- Duncan Stroik ('The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence and the Eternal')

Mar 29, 2024

Places of Worship

Sacred spaces in educational settlements present cross-cutting risk aggregations; defined in "navigational" Chapter 3 -- Occupancy Classification and Use. Committee Action Hearings on the Group A tranche of titles will happen in Orlando, April 7-16.

Mar 29, 2024

Church Facility Management

In 1978 the The Herman Miller company -- headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan -- founded a non-profit facility management organization now known as the International Facility Management Association.  One of its sister organizations, specializing in the stewardship of worship spaces will meet June 17-24, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan 

Mar 29, 2024

Environmental Air in Sacred Spaces

It is hard enough to get two people to agree on the temperature and humidity of 1000 square feet of interior space; let alone a four story 100,000 square foot chapel at the heart of faith communities. While inspired from the circumstances of the pandemic several cross-referencing titles in the American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers catalog provide insight into leading practice discovery and promulgation of interior air design and engineering for these spaces that present singular challenges.

Mar 29, 2024
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