St Peter's Church. Klippan

Two trains, one ferry and thirty minutes sleep: the pilgrimage to Klippan. I've some words on the building too but thats for in a few days time. Not a review of any kind but just a glimpse into the experience. Only a couple of photographs: bad camera, and no tripod. I recommend Sandy Wilson on the building though:

Aristotle in The Poetics, assigns unique significance to the ability to invent metaphor: 'The greatest thing by far is to be master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others and it is also a sign of genius since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilar.' Lewerentz possessed this unteachable gift to a marked degree. We will see, for instance, how, in St Peter's, a painfully evolved solution to the need for central support- a 'technical' assembly of raw steel sections into a column and crossbeam, which thrusts into the centre of the Church- irresistibly recalls the central symbols of both the New and Old Testaments: the tree of knowledge and the cross of redemption.


Architectural Reflections

Top image from: http://arch.et.bme.hu/kep/Image744.jpg
Others are my own