Nearby the train station where I saw
this, there was this architectural feature. I could have added it to the other thread but as I like geometry I decided to use an extra spot for it.
Best regards,
Michael
Michael,
A repeated design of rectangles in a U shape with the form of a V in the lower center. It's mesmerizing but how does it fit in with the human condition, such a vision beyond my liking it?
This is so hard and shiny and beyond any group memory of human beings. We have until this technical and industrial age,, relied on stone, mud, rock, grasses, wood and the like, all natural materials to make out buildings. Now with stark forms in glistening steel, we are free from the constraints of the older materials and now design can be based on abstractions like geometrical shapes.
For millennia, humans have made buildings and forts in squares, rectangles, ovals and circles. However, now we can also go beyond these forms with surfaces that have never been experienced by man previously. So this is where the steel structure we see has to fit in. Are we relating it to previous buildings from cave to mud huts all the way to castles and cathedrals or is this registered in our minds in relation to either art or else school geometry?
For sure this form itself asks for our attention. But where in our pantheon of values does this register as being good? I say,
" It is!" but why am I right?
Asher