Sacred Shapes & Details.

Prior to the modernist revolution, architects and builders have always used scared shapes and details, in order to accommodate facade, window to window, and doorway to doorway along a street, thereby making that street into a public space. I think it is important to remember this when we address the question of how to build today. The modern city street is composed from forms that have never had a sacred use or played a role in consecrating the land. They do not bear the imprint of those primal fears and needs from which gods are born. The new city is a city in which sheets of glass mirror each other’s emptiness across streets that die in their shadow. The facelessness of such a city is also a kind of godlessness.

We need to explore what human beings lose when the reference to the sacred things is entirely expunged from their environment.

— Roger Scruton, The Aesthetics of Architecture.