The downsizing Catholic Church: learning from Borromini’s counter-reformation architecture
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the work of Baroque architect \nFrancesco Borromini toward an architectural response to \nthe downsizing Catholic Church in North America. The \ncentury following the Protestant Reformation offered \nsimilar challenges to the Church. In response to the \nReformation, numerous Counter-Reformation measures \nwere employed to revive the Catholic Church. Architecture \nthat conveyed Catholic theology was considered a valuable \ntool in restoring the Church. Selected buildings designed \nby architect Francesco Borromini are examined for \ninsights into design techniques and strategies explored to \nsynthesize Catholic theology and architecture. The Sant’Ivo \nalla Sapienza and San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane churches \nin Rome are studied using research-creation methods that \nemploy architectural drawing as an investigative tool to \ndiscover the theological significance of the buildings. The \narchitectural design proposal explores conclusions drawn \nfrom research and applies the research findings toward \nthe design of small contemporary Catholic Church in \nOrangeville, Ontario.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".