The aim of the course is to understand frescoes and mosaics as a means of construction and representation of space in Byzantine churches. Projecting an ideal space, immaterial, infinite and timeless, the Byzantine temple shaped the lives of people in historical space and time for almost a millennium and a half, even beyond the borders of the Byzantine Empire.

Changes of use and fluctuations in the property market, combined with inheritance issues, have left modern metropolises with a huge stock of unused buildings…