How do you build a sacred space? | Siamak Hariri

To design the Bahá'í Temple of South America, architect Siamak Hariri focused on illumination -- from the temple's form, which captures the movement of the sun throughout the day, to the iridescent, luminous stone and glass used to construct it. Join Hariri for a journey through the creative process, as he explores what makes for a sacred experience in a secular world.

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[dimitristsekeris]

After so many millennia of building large rectangular rooms, this man literally just reinvented temple architecture. That must be the purest temple building that has ever existed.

[connieatkinson]

The majestic humility of this offering to all humanity is ineffably beautiful. It floods the heart with joy. God willing, I will visit some day.

[lunaticspleen]

i love the way he talks.. it is so rich, poetic, and full of heart

[AddilynneLastname]

I'm having that reaction over video, I didn't know archetecture could hold so much beauty and artistic and emotional weight and meaning, it's very rare especially in archetecture to have art that could hold up to being sacred but this definitely does

[yuppers]

The Baha'i Lotus Temple in Delhi, India is also very beautiful. Many decades behind in technology, but touching. The one in Willmette (Chicago) Illinois is remarkable because it is clad in the symbols of every major religion.

[nushinroshanioskui]

Thanks so much Mr. Hariri. Our gratitud from Argentina for such precious gift we have so next to our country in chile. Precious temple for all humanity🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

[AshwinJoshi]

An incredible fusion of creativity, passion, and spirituality. An excellent talk. I look forward to visiting. Truly inspirational!

[Zahlenteufel]

I am not religious and not usually impressed by architecture (at least the modern) but this building is beutiful!

[vinercent]

The difference between designers (architects) and engineers like myself " then we submitted it. And we were selected. After that we though about how to build it." I started at that sentence.
But it really turned out marvelously. It looks amazing.

[aja]

I have to update my bucket list of places to visit, now. Thanks, very well done!

[NeonsStyleHD]

So beautiful. My Dad was an architect, and I do level design and good architecture is just so beautiful and meaningful. It's the reshaping of those primordial caves to fit out own aesthetics in a modern world.

[francismausley]

This Baha’i Temple of South America in Santiago, Chile, designed by the speaker Hariri Pontarini Architects of Toronto was selected as the winner of the 2019 RAIC International Prize, by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

[RamzaBeoulves]

Wow he's so moved by his work, I hope one day I can be so passionate about something

[Daniel-jvku]

A rare piece of beautiful and meaningful architecture. By far one of the best contemporary buildings!

[SVisionario]

Very good talk, thank you so much for sharing with us Siamak. Really love your passion and perspectives about the sacredness and connection with the divine. I will for sure visit this incredible work of art one day. Thank you.

[mountainc]

This is why I love Ted




for providing me with pretious knowledge

[SOONHUENGNEOH]

Thanks for building such a beautiful Temple. I've read about it through a technical magazine from Project Management Institute (PMI). Great job again and love to see it in person.

[francismausley]

Touching talk. The Baha'i Faith teaches... ' ...teach your children the verses revealed from the heaven of majesty and power, so that, in most melodious tones, they may recite the Tablets of the All-Merciful in the alcoves..." of the Houses of Worship.

[NKsEntertainment]

Awesome 👍recently we visited Bahai Chicago, that's also a very nice and beautiful place 👍

[williamshakespeare]

You live 800 years ago in Europe. Gothic is the supreme form of architecture, not simply in technical intricacy and mathematical harmony and contrapuntal complexity - but in the way it married aesthetic beauty with function, and everything from its cruciform shape to the naval vaulted ceilings to the stained glass rose windows was a theological lesson. A symphony in stone, as Victor Hugo called Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.