God Comes to Earth: Designing Sacred Spaces for Environmentally Sensitive Times

For many religious groups, caring for the environment is not an option but a spiritual imperative.

For such congregations, green design goes beyond building materials and systems to address the relationship of the building to the site and of the congregants to nature.

The relationship of man to nature and nature to spirituality has dramatically changed in this era of environmental awareness.

The program God to Comes Earth explores ways in which architects can design places of prayer that acknowledge this paradigm shif.