The horizon is that of a common secular religion beyond the dogmas and differences in beliefs.

Nivola thought of the world as one great community.  He would have liked it to be inclusive, participatory and peaceful. Because of this, he demonstrated a growing annoyance with regards to the world’s so-called progress that was increasingly losing the centrality of man. Technology which at first serves man later controls him, the city now prey to noise and congestion to the point where cars reject the presence of man. His last works on New York bear witness to this dramatic loss of the center: the skyscrapers, flanking one another, form deep, narrow chasms, inside of which cars, buses and trams are piled up and tangled in a cluster of cold and shapeless matter. It seems like the world before it was formed: pure chaos—the fruit of a civilization driven by sheer ‘doing’, and always more emptied of ‘being'.