SACRED and PROFANE

Nowadays, architecture becomes part of every religious or worshipping place, which make many questioning of, Does the temple of church SCRED or PROFANE????...-

From the quote of Giorgio Agambers, “Sacred and Profane are not a perception of good or bad.” This quote makes me questioning of why they are all in equally in my mind, it is really no good or bad in architecture if we compared between those two. However, there is a reference to answer or critic for my mind.

It is true that god of each religious, such as Buddha image, Jesus Christ, etc, is very important and be reasonable to respect, but why many still build temple or church to cover those GODS. Believer respect god in the way god teach or the bible said, but architecture is just a memorable to make people remember the identity of that place. For example, Lao, Thailand, Burma, are respect in the same god which is Buddha, but the style and decoration is different, shown in the picture.

However, many of new building that redesign the‘ศาลพระภูมิ’ by following their concept, I’m agree that it is beautiful, but somehow it is very bad even they said ‘the way we respect ศาลพระภูมิ is the same as normal traditional one’ I think this is my profane example.

In conclusion, sacred and profane between architecture and religious still be a confusing contrast for me^^’