By Gerhard Richter, 2006, for the Cologne Cathedral
Saturday, January 5, 2008
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Architecture is the most practical and dangerous of the arts. All the other arts we have to live with...but architecture is not a thing that we only have to live with–it is a thing we have to live in. We live with it as Jonah lived with a whale. Jonah could not see the monster and there is a great deal to be said for living in the most hideous house you can see in the landscape. That is the one place you will be unable to see it.
G.K. Chesterton
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Make Churches Not Whales
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This blog is a collection of inspirational ideas for architecture, furnishings, space, and landscape...that I wish I saw in church. As the daughter of a midwestern USA pastor with 100 acres on which to build a new church complex, I've saved up 'good church ideas' for years. I hope they'll serve as a visual resource to others who long for excellence in church design.
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3 comments:
This idea is awful. I have been in the Cologne Cathedral, which is an amazing marvel of 6 centuries of human effort dedicated to an awesome building for God. This window, with its randomly-computer-arranged colored pixels, seems dreadfully *lazy* by comparison. It's kind of pretty in an impersonal way, I guess, but totally out of place, thoughtless, and signifying nothing. So disappointing; one should expect better to occupy a place in such a building.
I disagree. I think it fits the place perfectly, both aesthetically and philosophically. The mathematics that gave rise to the design are intrinsic to the way in which the universe is constructed; they are the very foundation of creation. And the design itself represents the perfect marriage of Man's technical and artistic attempts to understand the universe of which we're a part.
I think God would like it.
i agree with cassandra's sister.
but mostly: what's wrong with it being only aesthetically beautiful? it's all about colour. and pattern is unique.
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