How do you build a sacred space? | Siamak Hariri
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2017
- 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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Go dad!
David Hariri pinky swear?
Beautiful building.
David Hariri 😊😊
You are right to be proud of your dad. We can all learn something from this. Tell him he is bringing good to the world.
Really astonishing and thought provoking on so many levels!
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.
i love the way he talks.. it is so rich, poetic, and full of heart
It's merely what he felt about this work.
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.
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.
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
I have to update my bucket list of places to visit, now. Thanks, very well done!
An incredible fusion of creativity, passion, and spirituality. An excellent talk. I look forward to visiting. Truly inspirational!
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).
I am not religious and not usually impressed by architecture (at least the modern) but this building is beutiful!
*Some lesser-known facts about the Baha'i Faith:*
1) Women are not allowed to serve the most Supreme Administrative Body, the Universal House of Justice. So there is no Equality of Men and Women.
2) Baha'is are working to establish a Baha'i inspired New World Order, a Baha'i Super-state, headquartered in Haifa, Israel.
3) Baha'is shun (ex-communicate) Covenant-Breakers and execrate them.
4) Baha'is persecute the so-called covenant-breakers, they have desecrated the grave of Diya'u'llah who was buried next to his father Baha'u'llah.
5) Baha'is have as many as 15 splinter groups, sects.
6) Baha'is have their religious text Copyrighted and religious symbols Trademarked.
7) Baha'is teach their 'faith' everywhere except in Israel for unknown reasons!
8) Baha'is lie regarding their population, they claim their population in India to be over 1.8 Million, while the government census of 2011, reveals their figure to be 4572.
9) Baha'is selectively translate their writings for english speaking members and there is a very heavy Baha'i censorship.
10) There is no independent Baha'i Scholarship, all Baha'i texts need to be approved before publication.
11) Baha'is see all other religions as corrupted and dead. They believe that every religion has a life of 1000 years. There is nothing like "unity of religions" - they believe their religion is superior to all other religions.
12) Baha'is believe that Baha'u'llah is the sender of all prophets, the revealer of all holy books and Lord of the Lords!
13) Babis (predecessors of Baha'is) have killed many Muslims in Iran. Baha'is have also killed a few Azalis.
14) Baha'is believe their supreme body (The UHJ) to be infallible, they call it as 'Seat of God'!
15) Baha'i guardian Shoghi Effendi was a closeted Homosexual, he used to spend months in Switzerland with Baha'i money.
@@NaserEmtesali Not a Bahai, but
1) The equality of women and men is a central doctrine of Bahai. They do so many good things for women's rights around the world. One of the central figures said that if you can only educate one child, educate the girl. This same figure (who's sayings on religion are considered infallible) encouraged the election of women to positions of power, because he believed it would lead to a better world. Yeah, the UHJ consists of 9 men, and only men. That isn't right, but saying there's no equality is just so far from the truth. You are also ignoring the thousands and thousands of women who serve in the national and local bodies, who can elect people to the UHJ.
2) Bahais want a secular world tribunal. The writings clearly separate the roles of church and state.
3) Covenant-breakers are people who make their own Bahai splinter groups. I do not believe they are shunned, again not a Bahai. I highly doubt it.
4) Source? bahais are extremely persecuted in Iran. Bahais aren't the persecuting type; central teachings are unity, peace, and getting rid of prejudice.
5) So does probably every other religion. Also, source?
6) Why does this matter? They don't want people to alter the Writings.
7) Ok. And they believe Judaism and Islam are divinely inspired. And they have no clergy, they're forbidden to proselytize.
8) Source? their population stats come from a Christian journal.
9) Many writings are still being translated because of a shortage of qualified translators. Nothin shady. Apparently they will review writings that Bahai make about the faith, because many people dont know what it is and could develop wrong ideas
10) See 9
11) Bahais are extremely tolerant of all religions. They don't believe that their religion is the only way to commune with God. In fact, they embrace many different cultures and don't impose their beliefs on others. They believe that many religions are divinely inspired at their core, and that their religion is a renewal of that core inspiration, but again anyone who prays can commune with God and walk the spiritual path.
12) Bahaullah isnt God, he is a Manifestation of God (according to bahais). Just like Mohammed, the Buddha, Jesus, etc. They believe these divine teachers have been sent throughout human history, and will continue to be sent until humans are extinct.
13) A few Babis carried out an assassination attempt on the leader of Iran, but Bahaullah condemned these people. Even so, he was thrown in prison for the association. Bahai in no way advocates violence. Source for the Bahais killing Azalis? Also, many other misguided "religious" people commit violence like this. It's correlation not causation.
14) The infallible part is true, dunno about the "Seat of God" part. But the scope of the UHJ seems to be misunderstood and more benign, but I need to learn more about this.
15)Source? And why would it matter? Even if he did have those proclivities, there's no indication he acted on them. Also, this seems rather homophobic.
Clarifying 9: The Bahai Faith is a weird-sounding religion that very few have heard of. They don't want someone to publish non-factual misinformation on the Bahai Faith. There's already so much of that that contributes to Bahai persectution in Iran. Just think of all the people who take verses of the quran out of context, and use it to demonize and discriminate against Muslims. When if they opened the Quran and looked at the contexts of the surrounding verses and the history surrounding the Quran, they may sing a different tune. Bahais want to prevent that from happening to them.
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🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
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.
You have to keep a vague idea of how to build it all along, but you can't submit a completely thorough design for a competition : it takes too much time and ressources to do so. Nobody would have the incentive to participate in competitions if it was to be expected.
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.
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.
Wow he's so moved by his work, I hope one day I can be so passionate about something
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.
A rare piece of beautiful and meaningful architecture. By far one of the best contemporary buildings!
Awesome 👍recently we visited Bahai Chicago, that's also a very nice and beautiful place 👍
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.
Sounds great but probably more useful to teach them to be good human beings. No dogma, tenets, religious obediences, prayers, bible's, tablets, korans, sacred writings, pope's, gurus, imams, or 30 million dollar buildings are required to achieve that.
@@neiloshodges2816 They learn to be good by understanding and reciting "verses revealed from the heaven of majesty and power." In this New Age, you don't build a unified Spiritual World Order without modern tenets, the virtue of obedience, prayers, written sacred scriptures, a Divine Educator with a Revelation of a New Chapter of Religion, learned administrators (no clergy / gurus etc.) and Houses of Worships that symbolize the Oneness of God. the Oneness of Religion and the Oneness of Man for all to meet at the very Heart of the Community which believers alone made happen.
Such a beautiful work of art. Thank you!
We all need sacred space.
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.
I remember when me and my mother were first time in Florence, my mother started to cry when we first came near Florence cathedral Santa Maria del fiore, and she is atheist, not religios at all...
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Simply amazing!
It is a beautiful and spiritual place...I urge everyone to visit it.
I rather see more university and school than spiritual which only makes the poor more poorer. When i go for job application. The company asking my education and skills. That is why the poor are getting poorer because we dont see the reality but dreaming about something we never seen. Wake up.. If we need a life.. than go to school.
Alex, the Baha'i Faith is the only organisation that is be able to eradicate poverty in the long term. One of the principle of the Baha'i Faith is the elimination of extremes. For poverty to be overcome though, hearts have to be transformed first. There is poverty in the world because there is oppression and ignorance about spiritual realities. The Baha'i Faith has exactly the mission to remove the oppression (both material and spiritual) that is afflicting humankind. It's a process, it won't happen overnight. But it will be achieved.
Daniel G the main reason for poverty is the poor is praying more than going to school. The religion is the main reason for this world to go backwards. The rich is sending their children to school but the poor relying on those religious and die frustrated. Thanks anyway. If you travel to many countries. You will see. The more a city has temples the more riots and poor the people there are. But the owners of the temples are rich. Thanks a lot for building more temples to see more poverty n riots in this world. Thanks
No, the reason for poverty is absence of real religion. Real religion promotes the prosperity of humankind. For our time, it is the Baha'i Faith that can achieve that, and no other religion. The Baha'i Houses of Worship don't enrich any persons, actually they are a rift of the adherents of the Baha'i Faith to the world. They is no entry fee. In my view poor people exist because of lacking education, distorted culture and the oppression of the powerful elite, ungodly and manipulative. Without real religion, the world can never be anything else than a dark place. But the Baha'i Faith will be the first religion in the world that brings the Kingdom of God to earth.
LOVE to
I love architecture, what a beautyfull building
i love his work
I bet the new Windows version will use this building as a default wallpaper.
very beautiful. I'd like to visit this place
Great talk! I am truly inspired!
A really interesting talk about an important subject.
Very cool architecture - amazing, wow.
Great presentation speech
In order for a space to be sacred it must first be safe, more safe spaces!
IMO, a place becomes safe when you give value to it, there is a corner in my office, next to my gaming computer, that I call sacred, although many will see that as a materialistic statement, personally it is actually I place I don't only feel safe, but I also feel contempt.
Dude get out of my safe space
PERFECT!!!
it makes me want to go there
Go, Chile is a beautiful country.
Fantastic!
What makes a space sacred? Is its designer? The spirit of the unity among the builders and tradesmen? A simple blessing of a spiritual leader?
Beautiful
Lets share ideas, people! 🙏🏼💫
awesome.
That stone is from Portugal? Sweet.
Perfect!
10:53 You have left your fingerprint on eternity here my friend.
Wow!
Allah'u'Abha
Kathy Audree Gene Morris what ?
@@denisezi5055 It's a greeting used by Baha'is which means "God is Great"
Just... wowwwww!
sacred 9 beautiful!
So this building costed $900k!! Impossible! Just cutting and shipping those cut-to-made stones alone would have costed way more. Suppliers would have donated for this project to make it within this budget. Nevertheless what a masterpiece! I must go and meditate there!
If something is really sacred to people it doesn't need an extravagant, big expensive building. It should reside in their heart to be carried where ever they go.
exactly, and that's why when he said the cost, everyone was shocked. In a good way.
except people have difficulty holding on to an abstract concept. so something physical helps.
Like a wedding ring.
Perfect example
Good Point! However, "it takes the physical to create the physical". If we only have profane physical spaces, our physical existence may be equally profane.
i saw the title and misread it as safe space
What am I doing here watching people sharing their ideas while sitting here having none?
May the force be with you
All religions become perverted in this way. Christ said that Peter would be the rock upon which his church would be built because he was against the material trappings that had befallen the Jewish tradition. The church was supposed to be composed of people, not bricks! This is why he also said "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"
The soul doesn't need a safe space. If we need a multi-million dollar edifice to reach the sacred within us, then those people are missing the point completely.
PS Correct. You don't NEED a stone edifice to have a safe space. But this is a lot more than that. You'll need to open your mind to the many possibilities this structure has to bring people together and discuss current times.
Also, just because something was said in the past, even by someone as magnificent as Christ, does not necessarily make it binding forever.
wow thanks people
ESTE TEMPLO SE ENCUENTRE EN CHILE A LOS PIES DE LA CORDILLERA DE LOS ANDES EN SANTIAGO DE CHILE.
Maravilloso👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼
Sacred geometry
Hermoso
Any Baha'is here?
Steve Pickaxe me :)
Yep :)
All the way from Malaysia!
Allahu Abha
For example my wife (Chinese) and me (Swiss)
Anyone have the coordinates for this building?
33°28'35.0"S 70°30'41.4"W / Santiago, Chile
Mahalo.
"And if even a few who come have the same reaction as that security guard, then it truly would be their temple."
It will be a lot more sacred if there's you alone.
Where in south america, and why you dont say?
where do you think? santiago de chile bro en la comuna de peñalolen
congrats for the innovation, the building looks better from above than down at eye level. hopefully someone will be inspired by this building and make something that looks better at ground level
Siamak Hariri never says that this temple is in SANTIAGO DE CHILE :(
where is he from?
A. H the dude is Iranian American
thanks)
I want a bong made out of that glass.
Excuse me sir, but how did you connect perfection with a basket silhouette?
So B E A U Tiful
so...are we ignoring the security guard bit?
Blackstar Cj what was wrong with it. It ties in with the introduction.
Museums are sacred places in a secular world. or should be
muh safe space!
My name is Radiant..lol
Watt?
3rd nice talk
4th, just like Arsenal FC
Ice cream building
Nice tent. Lotus temple in Delhi much better than this.
$30,000,000? God sure needs and has a lot of money.
$30,000,000 Chilean pesos(clp) which means $27 MM USD
He did mention they finished most of the work using only 3% of that $30 million budget.
Also let's not be so simplistic. We live in a material world in which finances allow for sustenance. God does not need money, but God's people do. Everyone in the world is a child of God... Not just religious people. In short... This money went to hard- working people who's work was more than just another day on the job.
God doesn't need the temple. It's for the people going, off the notion people need meditation and prayer. Which saying they don't is political.
the building look like the lemon juicer
1st
u 2 ;)
Go to a campus as a minority.
5th
2nd
Great, now when do we start mass producing these for the homeless?
As soon as you get off the internet for good.
6th
warm toilet seat and strong internet. thats how
It's so ironic (and sickening) that religions claim to be all about spirituality but spend the vast of their wealth on buildings that provide no shelter. Christ said that Peter would be the rock upon which his church would be built because he was against the material trappings that had befallen the Jewish tradition. This is why he said "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"
The soul doesn't need a safe space. If we need a multi-million dollar edifice to reach the sacred within us, then those people are missing the point completely.
I think you missed the point. A house of worship is a sanctuary, like ones home. Its not needed, but when there is one, you feel when you enter it.
As he said, this is the last continental house of worship. Infact, their religion makes the homes of anyone a place of worship, no matter how big or small. They call it feast. So no, they didn't miss the point.
A sanctuary at the top of a mountain that you need a car to be able to get to? A sanctuary for the rich? A sanctuary for people sooo spiritually bankrupt they need a multi million dollar structure to make them feel good about themselves? I don't know. I think you might be missing the point. "upon this rock I shall build my church" said Christ. The rock was the human being. This was the message brought to us by Christ over 2000 years ago. Still... all judeo-christian faiths continue to "miss the point"
PS this was founded by Baha'i people world wide. Only fraction of their donations went to this building. Most of them goes to help the poor. Remember no one gets paid to serve. They all serve for free and have a full time job to make their living expenses.
The Baha'is use these temples wisely to generate media attention.
Answer: Science and Engineering built that "sacred space".
ZAW HTET HAN Very true. My understanding of the video was not how the temple was built but how the artistic design of the building can create a 'sacred space', where people feel in harmony with the geometric perfections. My opinion is that while science and engineering are obviously crucial to humanity, human creativity expressed through art is what is really special. (coming from someone who studies maths and physics at uni)
science and religion are wings of the same bird.
GUYS, I GROWN UP IN A BAHAI FAMILY, LISTEN TO ME, IT'S A VERY BAD AND UNHEALTHY FAIRYTALE. THINK! IF THESE PEOPLE RELALY WANTEDTO HELP THE WORLD, INSTEAD OF SPENDING MONEY IN THEIR OWN TEMPLES , THEY WOULD HAVE SELFLESSLY INVEST SAME MONEY IN CONTRIBUTING TO COUNTRIES, NOT BUILD OVER THEM
You must not be aware of all the community-building activities that the Baha'i faith is promoting. Education of children and youth, spiritual and intellectual activities in neighbourhoods across the world, investing in the capacity of individuals rather than throwing money at them. There are so many social action programs that are being promoted and developed by the Baha'is, both in developed and developing nations. Many of the communities involved in these activities have been able to make a living for themselves through developing their educational and material well-beings. These are just some of the ways the Baha'is are promoting the development of society. The Faith's activities are instilled with virtues such as unity of mankind, elimination of prejudices, equality for all, education as a necessity, elimination of extreme wealth and poverty and a devotional character whereby humans reflect on the virtues that will progress humanity.
Baha'is also contribute funds to natural disaster relief, pandemic relief and other humanitarian efforts. But money isn't the only way to create change. We need to build capacity in individuals to take charge of their own well-being. I urge you to revisit the true teachings of the Baha'i Faith and look at its community-building endevours.
It's okay to spend money on various things. And a temple that unites all and provides a space for spiritual growth is just as important. Baha'is are not just throwing money to build temples, they are contributing in various ways. The temples here are a sign of unity, to bring all together to pray and inspire individuals to develop their spiritual capacity.
How do you start a new cult? By the way, Even though it's considered a "feel good fruit", I'm not going to worship a banana inside of a jellyfish.
Yet you worship ignorance, animosity and intolerance, you've made a god out of your ignorance. empathy many times comes from suffering, I'll pray to a non-existing god, that he may grant you suffering, hopefully from the ashes of your poor perspective a virtuous man can rise.
Red Okami Pretty pathetic to create your straw man argument on the fact you have no idea about the person who you're talking to
Who do we know in the internet? as far as I know everyone seems to hold the truth in their statements, yet is so easy to interpret the character of those that dare to insult its way behind a monitor. Read yourself as if you were another person, it'll be easy to point the pettiness of your own words.
Red Okami And I say to you, you can agree with all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but never all of the people all of the time. Just as some people can't see to the point made through the satire. You, sir. Are not.
Ok settle down, i think the architects thought of a veiled lamplight when designing this. Though a banana inside a jellyfish is a creative interpretation i have to admit ^^;
Aye that’s trash.
Step one. Build something beautiful
Step two. Call it sacred
Step three. Get a bunch of people to feel the meme magic and call it sacred too
He should have built any building & smoked a joint,same effect.
There are no sacred spaces. Everything is sacred or nothing. I like that building though. Nice architecture for a science center.
Money well spent for nothing!
Can't wait for the day to see the earth with no religion.
we had that, it was called the stone ages.
I invite you to learn more about the Bahai religion. There's no pressure from our faith to tell you that you must/should be/ought to be religious, much less a Bahai. We think that your relationship with the divine is your choice, even that choice to have zero relationship.
We also think that any conflict that comes from religious belief means that it is better to not have religion at all.
Bahai Temples are welcoming spaces, for the community. No person is rejected, no requirement for religion or religious intent is needful to be welcome. All we ask for is that you peaceably be present, and equally welcoming to any others.
Your ability to be a good human does not require religion. But some humans aren't like you, and they work better with religion, because some people like structure. Of course, the Bahais are the least structured of any Religion that I know of. No clergy. No requirement for a temple (only to be built when your community needs a space to have activities that isn't available otherwise) and it is the individual's responsibility to learn.
Please feel welcome to visit any Bahai place.
30 million dollar project. f that! give me that money i will show u how to do is movement
At 2:32 he states that there are no clergy in the Baha'i Faith, but this is patently false given that individuals in the hierarchy, particularly in the higher ranks, spend decades working exclusively for the Baha'i Administrative Order.
Boring to see him reading his cards in front of an audience. Trough the cards in the garbage and start again.
Didn`t watch. Answer is money.
then you should have watched it. He also managed to stay below the 3% of his budget doing the building.
🤢🤮
Wow!