ABSTRACT
While this treatment is symptomatic of the post-war disenchantment of humanity
based on the tragic end of unconstrained technology, it gives rise to the formation of
the sense of oneness between the congregation and the altar. Spatial emptiness of the
church further strengthens this oneness, an emptiness emerging from its monolithic
construction and the astounding stripping of images, icons, and figures from the body of
the church. If one puts aside for a moment the crux of the empty cross, which integrates
the iconic referential value with the corporeal phenomenal thickness of light, the church
appears certainly restrained, or even anti-figurative.
