Basement Sanctuaries

摘要

THE GENESIS of Basement Sanctuaries is a simple one. Gesche Wurfel and her husband went apartment hunting in Northern Manhattan, New York. Each time they were they were taken aback by the ways in which the superintendents paced in charge of the buildings had decorated the basements This discovery set Wurfel on a course to document as many of these spaces as possible. It may sound like a relatively low-key concept, but moving through the book is a genuinely captivating experience. What is revealed is that each of the superintendents uses the space to reflect their cultural and religious origins.