Adam Parsons: Blog Entry 8

What does God look like? A question that has been prevalent since days of old and continues to cause quandaries still today is closely linked with the story of how the MIT Chapel came to be. The founders of the Institute of Technology built their structures based on a proportional geometry; each wall placement, orientation, and size was dictated by a system of mathematical rules, yet every rule has an exception. One Sunday while the masons kept the Sabbath, a spirit seemed to descend from the heavens above. Its form followed no rules of geometry and was unlike anything the founding masons had ever laid their eyes on before. Moved by this secular moment, the masons decided to break their rigor of proportional rules and sculpt the organic spire that still reaches towards the sky currently.