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The interior acoustics has nowadays strong impact at the architectural design of public use buildings. Among them, churches seem to be especially important, due to their religious, spiritual and cultural role in the society and overall importance in life of individuals. Moreover, in a present-day religious communication and celebration ‘the statement’, thus speech, seems to weigh over the chant and organ pipe music. Such approach has substantial influence on contemporary design of churches, introducing significant...

Public buildings have always been, and still are - especially in recent years, one of the most intensively realized groups of buildings. This allows to notice some trends both in the decision making process related to these buildings and in the applied design solutions. These trends can be generally referred to as “trends towards exaggeration”. It reveals in several aspects such as big number of those buildings or their excessive scale and standard. Among the numerous the reasons of emergence and prevalence of the...