Ulterior Romanticism

The project explores new paradigms for imagining the changing relationship between architectural space, tectonic elements, peak human experiences, and time.

A cathedral for the distant future 12,000 years from now.

Speculating on how our relationship to architectural objects and our experience of architectural space change over the very long term as the nature of human perception evolves and is inevitably transformed.

I believe that we will eventually come to know a reality that is much broader than the one we currently experience. We will be liberated from Plato’s cave and come to perceive reality in a fundamentally different, fundamentally expanded way. We will lose our bodies. Death may become obsolete. The distinction between subject and object – between “us” and the space we inhabit – will collapse. At some point, “we” will become one with “architecture”. The design is meant to imagine this moment, and how we get there.