Article January 19, 2009 Issue

UNIQUE YET UNIFIED

JOSEPH KAMENJU,—OSLO, NORWAY

Having arrived recently to study architecture in Norway, my friends and I from Kenya were admiring the new Oslo Opera House. On a beautiful day in summer with the sun streaming in at a low angle, the high foyer was awash with dazzling light. I was struck by how the architect had achieved the effect of every material —in this case, glass, concrete, and wood —expressing their uniqueness even as they shared in a unified purpose. "That's how I should be thinking about my own work as an architect," I thought to myself later.

"Especially as it relates to God, the Maker of all that is good, and beautiful, and useful." For me, this relationship is clarified by a passage from Science and Health that never fails to inspire me in my academic work and my prayers: "Man is not absorbed in Deity, and man cannot lose his individuality, for he reflects eternal Life; nor is he an isolated, solitary idea, for he represents infinite Mind, the sum of all substance" (p. 259). |CSS

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