Now this is where Frampton's essay breaks down. The idiosyncratic vault signifies sacred space, well maybe a particular space of importance but not necessarily sacred. Then he goes on about its referring to the only precedent for such a form in a sacred context, the pagoda roof! He continues that Utzon cites this in an essay. But the next part is a stretch. The vault does not exclusively signify an Asian reading therefore it is secular(worldly, not of the church.)Why is this so? Precluding the 'usual set of semantic religious references' does not by default, secularize. Is an Asian reading so foreign as to throw the whole mix out of the sacred? This secularization of the vault therefore renders it in a way particular to the region, right? Well he says that this is a secular age.