Davide Macullo Architects | TEMPLE OF THOUGHT

Davide Macullo Architects is an international architecture and design studio based in Lugano, Southern Switzerland. Studio di architettura in Ticino, Svizzera.

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TEMPLE OF THOUGHT

2021

Rossa, Calanca Valley, Grisons

Switzerland

The Temple of Thought aspires to be the first place dedicated exclusively to man’s ability to think. It is a place to sit. It is a place to stop even without thinking.
The project envisages the placement of the Temple of Thought in public spaces around the world in order to emphasise the belonging to the human race of all, indiscriminately, beyond the diversity of cultural, religious, geographic, climatic, political, and economic environments.
We have educated and trained ourselves to produce and consume, and we perpetrate this by necessity at a rapid pace, at the limit of the sustainability of our forces, leaving only residual, meagre spaces for the most important activity of our existence: thinking.

A larger version of the Temple as a unicum can be found in the woodland sculpture trail in Tesserete Switzerland at Artinbosco www.artinbosco.ch under the curatorship of Firginia Fasanelli.
Another version can be found in the Metaverse curated by RHNH www.rhnh.xyz, intended to eliminate all prejudices and boundaries.
In 2024, the first international version of the project was carried out at the Green Valley residential complex in Tirana, Albania.
In June 2025, a custom-made Temple of Thought was created for the Bread & Heart architecture festival, also in Tirana, with the intention of permanently installing it in the city’s Grand Park.
New Temples of Thought are currently being designed in Ecuador, Romania, and Italy.