Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.