166 Tomb

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Burial Chamber:

Tomb = quiet, dark, lay or bury - small room/monument, cut in rock.

Mausoleum = stately/impressive building, housing a tomb or group of them.

Sepulchre = sepelire, Latin, ‘bury’.

Sepulcrum = ‘burial place’

Vault = dome lach - safe - museum: (leap/ jump/ spring/ bound/ hurdle/ clear).

Crypt = Ossuary, (Os/Oss = bone).

Undercroft

Catacomb = An underground cemetery/ gallery, with recesses for tombs. Example, the burial near Rome of St. Sebastian.

Grave

Barrow: ‘berg’ - Hill/ Mountain, Container or room for bones.

Burial Mound = Ancient.

Dolmen

Cromlech: Welsh

Charnel House

Miscellaneous:

Epitaph: inscription on a Tomb.

Tolmen: Cornish, via Breton - ‘hole of a stone’, straight vertical and flat horizontal top stone*.

Brittany, a circle of standing stones.

Crom - (f. Welsh), Crum - (m. Welsh - arched vertical stones, flat horizontal top stone*.

*Flat horizontal top stone: Krommlec’h - (Breton), Llech - (Welsh).

Flesh: Carnelis, Carnale - (Old French/med. Latin), Caro, Carn, Carnal = physical, sexual needs, Carnalis (2) - Christian Latin, activities, desires. [Associated with death].

The Tomb is about the death of architecture and within, towards: Building. Why? Because we need anonymity to its stylistic ways, constantly refining signature, and making personal attributes of the coyest, shyness of a living protagonist, to be allured by the stamp of a personality. By colonial means, believing: all there is, to make the mark of conformity - and aloofness, when you must come back to the shore. Do not be out in those choppy seas, fighting for your resistance and pray for the dead, and the living, and the living dead, bound by God. And . . . .

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. (Psalm 118:22)

There is a tranquillity of quiet about the Mausoleum that we enshrine the dead Kings, Queens, labourers and everything in between. We say goodbye and sometimes we forget to celebrate their life, so what is the Mausoleum today. A sanctity entered from underground, buried? A volume of mass to show the weight of a life of pressure and stress. When it could be open to the sky.

So, it makes sense to use this as a paradigm of the loss of life, so normal, and that God can be let in; in celebration when Building needs to be the backdrop, and the promise of a clean simple environment that is begotten into this world as child’s play; the pared down, minimalist, box or curve, the curve is not an issue, the triangulation of creativity is allowed, as we have learnt from Le Corbusier, form is not what it is but how it is constructed, by art.

The artistry of the Mausoleum is the cornerstone. Never give up on praying for those you have lost in Jesus’ name. He is invincible so once again we give our lives up to him, and pass on our pain to Jesus, and he will thank us for our forgiveness of ourselves, through his own forgiveness. We must gather and think of Symbology, when an Egyptian worker carrying tons of weight to build the pyramids was buried with a beer bottle, and plate to continue the wealth of sustenance the King gave them, for a lifetime in preparation for death. Our architecture must be prepared to die and be pared down to nothing to find full autonomous anonymity.

Express yourself: the stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, and yet, the intellectuality of the discourse of your subject through the subjugation of sacrifice to your subject, by way of simplicity and exactness, to fill the gap, to fit, to fulfil, to make a dream come true, is not because it is a nice thing to do, but a serious discourse of pride in your work: Architects. It is style that is dead in order to create a paradigm of Anonymity; it is becoming a magazine article we think we will be unhappy in, because that is just an image, but that should remain the inspiration for our ideals. It must be dark and light, and well constructed. Maybe it is ‘construction’, not building we are talking about. Construction is the finite difference, because it describes elementally how the mgdgvsd, surmises, into the gestalt: the sum of more than its parts. (mgdgvsd - mono, gestalt, dimension, grid, volume, section, detail).

And the Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed upon his glory, glory like that of the Father’s only son, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

Building: is how we prepare ourselves for a future of preservation, and so we are ready for the next phase of Construction.

May the language of Literature be the beginning, of our architectural Language.

 A-Men

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