home by ursula meier

home - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319569/

a tender portrait of the family in modernity.
blunt powerful use of silence.
evocative in its warm home, play and plausible siblings.
beautiful and baffling moments naked.
consolidated my contempt for the motor car, hope for the ideal of home and fascination with french cinema.

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home - http://thisishomeproject.blogspot.com/

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home - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2L3fc8mxk
home - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWu_1qmM0io

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home - Quoting Alexander quoting Buber:
"..in the imperishable language of the human heart house means my house, your house, a man's own house. The house is the winning throw of the dice which man has wrested from the uncanniness of universe; it is his defense against the chaos that threatens to invade him. Therefore his deeper wish is that it be his own house.."

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home - "Rent houses and sleep in them." Jer29v5

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home - Few things give me more joy than to form space in conversation with people to express the home they hope for.

All other things being equal if you could treehouse would you, houseboat would you, if it could be wood would you, stone would you, by the sea would you?

Does the exhaustion of individualism sufficiently account for the failure of imagination represented by suburbia?

What religious code of propriety dictates the aesthetic and personal as a less than valid pursuit?

People get the architecture they deserve, what you look for you will find, we do not have because we do not ask. What do we deserve? What are we looking for? Who are we asking?

Modernity does not have categories for home and homeness. What world view then has sufficient patience for the homes we mutedly hope for?

Home can be a bowl of soup, a warm embrace and a labrador. Home can be where your heart is, wherever she is, where they know your name. These are joy. But we forge a timid dichotomy. A book is both-and story and paper, a loved one is both-and body and soul. Home is more than memory, inheritance more than good intentions and L'Abri more than theology. There is pleasure in tracing the human touch on ancient steps, worn and storied. Home has an architecture and it is a valid pursuit of the christian imagination to paint it in all its simplicity and specificity.