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art architecture:
the
education of an artisan
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Our histories are not just
about people, work, projects, and personal relationships, social and
cultural experienceS: it is about all of “it”. World events, peace
movements, war, music, art, science, engineering, and architecture, all
of it.
We cannot possibly understand
the times in which we live unless we understand the impact of events and
information on our personal histories. We cannot possibly understand the
times in which we work unless we understand the impact of
science/technology, music, medicine, and literature, AND the role of
cultural forces in the events of the world.
I think, what we have with
those who came before us: we all have in common, IS what we do not know
how things are going to come out. They did not know how things where
going to come out any more than we dO. I think, we should give the past the benefit of our
doubts, because in our choices we, like the people of the past, do not
know what we decide and do will really come out. Nothing ever has to
happen the way it happened. nothing was on a track. nothing was
pre-ordained. nothing was guaranteed to be as it is.
“Anything …at any time …Any event of the past…Could have gone
differently …Could have been DONE DIFFERENTLY…For any number of different
reasons …At almost any point in time.”
Through Education we find we
are together a people bonded in wisdom, knowledge, and virtue. There is a
bond that, I believe, extends beyond race, age, economics, AND
DEMOGRAPHICS THERE is a sense of wanting to belong to something greater
than US at the base of this is the love of learning.
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Robert R. Lackney Architect
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mission |
vision
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archangel11@bellsouth.net
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A group of artisans, authors, architects, sculptors,
contemplative painters, students and religious dedicated to the
development and expression of Creative Spirituality as a Mystical Language
in the restoration of the Sacred Art and Architecture. of the catholic
church based upon Pope John Paul’s call
Pope John PAUL’S CALL for
‘ …
“ … Restoration and the appreciation
of the value of the Catholic artisan’s gifts in the Church’s expression of its
Sacred Art
and Architecture
be
recognized …”
The Society
offers assistance to artisans, authors, architects, STUDENTS in the
liturgical arts, and members of the helping professions through a yearly
scholarship program from the sale of its publications and art works.
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Robert R.
Lackney
Architect
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Idea Worth Spreading
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The Future Past: Present
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My
toys
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My
first “toys”, at the age of 4, were discovered while sitting at my corner
worktable while drawing squares and circles on white grid papers supplied
by my father.
Once discovering the neat little
shapes during the “time outs” my father, Andrew, required when i refused to
eat the canned corn my mother prepared FOR THE evening supper.
Drawing
the little “crosses” first
in the square. Then a "+" placed in the circle. My father told
me that these “plus” signs were the hidden “secrets” of the universe.
My
father taught me to inscribe
a circle in the square - it was magical! soon I began to capture
triangles: tall, short, flat 3-sided shapes that looked as if they were
pieces of a “pie”. the circles could be divided into 4, 8, then and 16.
It
was too hard to make many more –
not permitted to use a knife to keep the pencil point sharp.
the
lessons of my worktable have not been FORGOTTEN: secret squares,
ELONGATED rectangles, endless circles, and triangles of so many shapes my mind filled with
wonder.
Soon
the counting of whole numbers at the corners of the of the triangle: 3,
the squares and rectangles: 4, and as my dad taught the delight of 6 … 8
… 10, the corners of hexagons octagons, AND DODECAHEDRONS, each BECOMING
A circle as they expanded their sides.
We used “0” for the
circle, which refusing to yield one corner to count! The “0” to 10 became
another set of “mysteries” to ponder.
I am so grateful for not eating that
“milky” canned corn my mother made for the evening supper! To this day I
never eat canned corn.
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SQUARES
CIRCLES
RECTANGLES
TRIANGLES
SPIRALS
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My
father speaking saying good things
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From 5 years of age
through 16th year, my father would meet with me weekly. I would
say that in these meetings my father would tell me all of the family
stories that he knew or “invented’. He told me of his experiences with
the women he knew, the work he did, the places he had visited, the
troubles he had been involved: all these stories are vivid memories.
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In fact, it is my
belief that in these memories of my father’s STORYTELLING FUELED and
formed my IMAGINATION
IN such a WAY THAT I received the gift of “creative imagination”.
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My father’s stories created within me the
DESIRE TO study people, places, things and the PASSION FOR the DESIGN
things, SPACES, BUILDING. Stories somehow, for me, mix and blend time: We
are able to invoke A DREAM image mix it WITH A memory and then create AN
IDEA that can BE MADE into SPACE.
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CREATIVE IMAGINATION
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in a way an architect makes the past
present: future! I learned this from my father, andrew, while he filled
me with his adventures and life stories of the farm. the bootlegging days,
travels, pool rooms
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Becoming
a
person of value
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Rainbows: I remember as a child- I must
have been in the 2nd grade maybe 7 years old- a hot summer’s day
in the deep south- looked at the mountain or hill that rose from the
creek that flowed past my grandmother’s house.
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We lived in what the coal miners called a
“holler” This hill had captured my imagination for the entire summer and on
this day I decided to climb up its steep side to the top. Nearing the summit sweating a
storm came and pouring rain down the side of the hill, filled the creek,
and drenched everything in sight including me.
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RAINBOWS
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The storm was over with in minutes and
the sun returned with a vengeance of heat. As I sat there and my clothes
began to dry out I was able to gaze out over the scene below me:
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everything glistened – the reds, blues,
greens and gold’s and I will never forget how blue the sky was with a few
big billowing white clouds to my left in the distance.
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CELESTIAL
PALACE
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Then they’re appeared as if in a mist a rainbow
that arched so high I had to stretch my neck to get the entire sight into
my eyes:
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…. A SACRED MOMENT NOT ever to be
forgotten…
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It was on that HILLTOP LOOKING over the earth
below, INTO the colors of that rainbow that I asked the question what
WOULD I do with my life?
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I was no doubt
inspired and I really do not recall what went through my mind but in the descent
down the mountain I decided to become a person that would have value to
others and to myself.
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Current work | study
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Ordination: 1985 Permanent Deacon
(served 4 Dioceses)
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Permanent Deacon Lexington
Diocese, 2000 to present:
Senior Status October 2007
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Current: Chaplain:
McDowell Hospital, volunteer staff // Sts. Peter/Paul Catholic Church:
Parish Chaplain
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Moderator:
the Society of Sacred Art |
Architecture, Inc.
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Publisher: ArchAngel
Publications 1998 to present
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Liturgical Architect: 1971 to 2008
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publications
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Publications: 6
publications on Creative Spirituality and the Divine Hours
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Manuscripts: Art| Architecture:
The Education of an Artisan
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Manuscripts: My 4th
Day Journal: 20 years of preaching 12vol.
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Manuscripts: Space
Symbol and Spirituality: The Eucharistic Space, Sanctuary: 4 Vol.,
Presence, and Toys
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Liturgical commission
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Service: Executive
Committee for Toledo Diocese Liturgical Commission (1979-1988)
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Service: United States Catholic Conference
Committee Liturgical (FDLC 1981-1988)
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Service: Diocesan 10 Year
Renovation Programme: author
(Bishop Hoffman/ Rv. R. Doppler)
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Service: Cathedral Organ Restoration
(Skinner Historic
Organ: Registration Number
802)
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Service: Nashville Diocesan Planning and
Programming Process ( 15 parishes)
( Bishop Neidergessess)
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Training: Father Robert Doppler, Executive Director of FDLC, Frank
Kacmarick, Ed Sovick
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Recognition: Churches of Note: Five (5)
renovations
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Liturgical Architect: 32 Church s [25 Catholic churches
in various Dioceses]
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Seminars: Christology, 10 Commandments, Mother
of God, RCIA, Cursillio, Catholic Catechism, tHE HOLY sPIRIT
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Seminars: Worship, Journaling workshop
(Carnegie Literacy Center)
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Formation
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Ex MBA Program: Vanderbilt University,
1986-1993: Dr. Fogg; University Michigan; Qual Pro TQM
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Leadership: University of Michigan 1991-1996 Rodney McGraw, Dean;
Learning Organization, SSOE
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Total Quality Management (1989-1997) : SSOE,
Corporate Planning/ Qual Pro Management/ Systems
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Consultations: Little Sisters of the
Poor, Notre Dame Sisters, Ursulines, Sisters St. Francis, Precious Blood
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Philosophy
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The Church is the “symbol” of
the Community
both spiritually and
physically
the Church is the sign of this supernatural
reality”.
“Church Building is a sacred process: The creation of living form A
Spiritual Universe
“The art of building Church
is the holy work unlike no other
It is the work that prays
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Architecture
design and practice
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1956-61
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North Carolina state: formation
under birleline, taylor, George matsumoto, Eduardo Catalano, Eduardo
Sacriste, jose de riveria, horacio caminios, montagero, roy guesso,
richard neutra, Ducan stuart, Dean sappenfiled. Paul Bussion.
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1955-63
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Munger munger
architects:
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1963- 69
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Ball State University: Served as
associate Professor of
ARCHITECTURE and PLANNING
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1969-1998
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SSOE Architects: Partner- owner 1970
through 1999.
Corporate design: institutional, recreational, hotel and convention FACILITIES,
PRISONS, mental HEALTH HOSPITALS Music and performing Arts center(s),
Liturgical Architect: 30 Church design Project
Research Architect: The Transformation of the Mental Hygiene and
corrections Institutions under Martin Janis.STATE of Ohio Department of
corrections, Developmental DISABILITIES, Ohio Commission on AGING, AND
The department of mental health. Over 100 completed and constructed
PROJECTS. Projects include
design and CONSTRUCTION in RESEARCH, Program, and Design.
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Awards
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DESIGN AWARDS AND RECOGNITION IN
ARCHITECTURE
•A.I. A, Design.
Award: SSOE International Headquarters
Masonry AWARD: SSOE International Headquarters
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Hospitality Association Award:
•Maumee Bay State Park Lodge, Cottages,
Nature/RECREATION CENTER & Golf Course
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A.I.A DESIGN AWARD: Blue Cross of Northwest Ohio
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State of Ohio Outstanding
Architect/ Consultant:
Governor Richard Celeste,
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
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Toledo Liturgical
Commission Churches of Note:
·•Saint
Ignatius Catholic Center, Parish Life Center
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•Saint Clements Catholic Church, renovations
to the sanctuary
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•Lourdes College, Sisters of St. Francis,
Queen of Peace Chapel
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•Saint Peter’s Catholic Church, Archibald,
Ohio,
renovations to the sanctuary
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•Saint Clements Catholic Church
renovations, to the sanctuary
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