NOTES FROM ACADEME

Shadows of a Sacred Space

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Philadelphia

Perhaps only the ruin of a great man is more compelling than the ruin of a great building. And if the building is a temple — a sacred space long since abandoned by its worshipers, left to silence and dust — the ruin is all the more interesting. Its columns offer...

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