MONASTERY is a home for twenty four monks in the Hill Country of Central Texas. A church is established for the community of Wimberley, facing the town; a brewery is established to create financial stability for the abbey, linking monastic tradition with a thriving Hill Country brewing scene; and twenty four monk cells wrap the saddle of Eagle Mountain to create a cloister. All are linked by a D'Hanis brick plaza. The topography eats its way through a wall between the cell wing and the church, leading to a large cross established on the hill. All elements are given a thinness, linking 'typology' to it's biblical roots, and requiring that the brotherhood provided for by Benedictinism also defines an accountability for the actions of the brothers. (05/19)