![]() Starting in about 1956, I began for the first time, consciously, to try and find out what architecture is. ![]() It comes from paying attention to the fact that the task of making and remaking the earth that we call architecture, is at the core of this common sense understanding. I believe it may be understood by all of us – by ordinary people, by scientists, and by religious seers.Īll this comes from the task of paying attention to the earth, its land and rocks and trees, its buildings, and the people and ants and birds and creatures all together, and its blades of grass. It has led me to explicit visions of God, and to understanding of what kind of entity God may be, coupled with a way of talking about these things that allows them to be understood in straightforward terms. Only in the last twenty years has my understanding of this certainty taken somewhat explicit form, and it continues to develop every day. ![]() Further, I have now come to the view that the sacredness of the physical world – and the potential of the physical world for sacredness – is a powerful, surprising, and sure path to recognizing, and providing small steps towards understanding the existence of God, whatever God may be, as a necessary part of the reality of the universe. It has taken me almost fifty years to understand fully that there is a necessary connection between God and architecture, and that this connection is, in part, empirically verifiable. ![]()
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