Doctrines and Layers in Space: A Critique of Stephen Ajadi’s Design for the Anglican Church in Ogidi, Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorIgwe, J. M.
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-06T12:58:34Z
dc.date.available2020-01-06T12:58:34Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-01
dc.descriptionStaff publicationsen_US
dc.description.abstractThe paper engages Stephen Ajadi’s design for the Anglican Church in Ogidi as a platform and environment to experience, appraise and study the symbolism and dynamics of doctrine in space. In Ajadi’s proposed church design, mutations of the Anglican doctrine are expressed and interrogated in the typology of church. Employing the investigative methodologies of history, architectural theory, and interviews with the architect, the ideas of Ajadi are appraised, interrogated and expounded. In the development process of the Ogidi church, Ajadi skillfully moves backward to go forward while still in the present. He has used methods of computation and parametric design to engage highly abstractive issues of history, space, place and doctrine. He sets up an orchestration strategy that hides method in plain sight while the issues he intends to address take the foreground, probably only for a keen eye. The Ogidi project is found to address wider theoretical issues than the architect had initially imagined. In essence, the church not only engages doctrine in space, but creates layers of other parameters into a parcel of discourse such as place, chronology and the possibilities of new methods for addressing them in an architectural project.en_US
dc.identifier.citationIgwe, J. M. (2019). Doctrines and Layers in Space: A Critique of Stephen Ajadi’s Design for the Anglican Church in Ogidi, Nigeria. Lagos Journal of Architecture, 3, 61-78.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2645-2669
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/7265
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Architecture, University of Lagosen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLagos Journal of Architecture;Vol.3
dc.subjectDesign theoryen_US
dc.subjectDoctrineen_US
dc.subjectSpace and meaningen_US
dc.subjectAnglican churchen_US
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::FORESTRY, AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES and LANDSCAPE PLANNING::Landscape planning::Landscape architectureen_US
dc.titleDoctrines and Layers in Space: A Critique of Stephen Ajadi’s Design for the Anglican Church in Ogidi, Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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