Cloister

Folio i — The studio

A design studio making software for the Catholic Church

Cloister designs, builds, and runs three ventures for the faithful, in marriage, in the parish, and in the slow formation of a Catholic mind.

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Folio ii — The three houses

Manifesto

Three ventures, one mission.

Cloister is a design studio building software in service of the Catholic Church. We make products that help the faithful live the faith: in marriage, in prayer, in the slow formation of a Catholic mind, and in the parishes that gather them. Not content. Not noise. Instruments for the long work of sanctification.

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam

Ventures

Three houses under one roof

Approach

Four walks around one garden

Plan of the abbey of Saint-Gall, after the drawing of about 820: the church at its centre with the cloister beside it, and round them the school, the scriptorium, the refectory, the guest houses and the gardens.
Plan of the cloister of the collegiate church of Semur-en-Auxois: four vaulted walks around a square garth with a well at its centre, the church alongside.
PlanAbbaye de Saint-Gall, vers 820E. Viollet-le-Duc, 1854PlanCloître de Semur-en-Auxois, 1230–1240E. Viollet-le-Duc, 1868

Contact

The parlour

In a monastery, the parlour was the one room where a monk might speak with visitors. This is ours.

For a parish, a diocese, an apostolate, or a conversation about the work. Inquiries are welcome.

hello@cloister.studio
Bird’s-eye view of the abbey of Cîteaux: the church and its spire, the great and lesser cloisters, the ranges of buildings around them, gardens and fields beyond, and a cart drawing up at the gate.
Fig. 7Abbaye de CîteauxE. Viollet-le-Duc