ABSTRACT
This chapter indicates why modern attempts to reduce architecture to a purely practical art appear mistaken. It observes how deeply the connections between architecture and theistic belief once ran. The chapter finally identifies other pertinent questions that have continued to demand philosophical investigation. There are two basic faults for abandoning modern housing. The first is that function cannot in fact be so easily divorced from wider human concerns. Similarly, shops need to take into account not just the ability to display the relevant wares but also such things as security of setting, and even confidence generated in the business by the sense of the building as one that is here to stay. one may observe that the claim is not that the totality of God is encountered but only divinity under some partial aspect: transcendent, ordered, dynamic and so on.
