How vital is facing liturgical east to a re-appropriation of good church architecture?
Doorly: The return to ad orientum–the priest and people together facing East in liturgical worship is vital if the transcendent vision is to be reclaimed. Turn Again Father. IgnatiusInsight.com: Any signs of hope when it comes to church architecture? Doorly: There is definite hope. A new generation of younger scholars and priests is beginning to ask these questions and draw on the magnificent tradition of the Church both in writing and practice. Churches are beginning to be re-re-ordered by reversing the stripping of the altars that has taken place. Secular architects began abandoning the principles of Relativist space thirty years ago. Church architects can do the same given the lead by those who commission the designs.
