It is estimated that by 2040 affiliations to the Anglican Church in Britain will be less than 1 percent of the population.

Long before that stage is reached, the church will cease to be a viable entity, both in terms of the community and its architecture.



A new, contemporary type of cubistic iconoclasm has been developed to accommodate for the discourse between the fallen religious doctrines

and nostalgia for ecclesiastical beauty.



During an intellectual revolution instigated by Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity, within the world of art it was cubism that set out to wage war with existing order, where artists were concerned with establishing a geometric foundation appropriate for an inquiry into the creative process of nature’s structure. The project focused on engaging a new form of 3-dimensional cubistic transformation, with existing ecclesiastical architecture of the City of London.



St Mary-Le-Bow Church has been chosen as a case study for these deconstructive/constructive processes, and to bring its previous spiritual significance

to the contemporary public life I propose its transformed version to house new Headquarters and Library for The British Humanist Association,

a building which would engage people with the wonder of science and critical reasoning.

The Library gives a unique perspective in time, developed simultaneously with the growth of a centerpiece White Oak Tree, it is a monument to public space, where structural ecclesiastical elements are casted ghosts of the Christian past, and the ornament undergoes cubistic iconoclasm.