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From: amn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Noble)
Subject: Re: Fractal Architecture
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Although I find a lot of merit in the last post, I seem to disagree on one
simple level. Simple shapes are the signature of man.
Now before I get slammed with rebuttals, I'm basing this on Corbusier's
statement that the perpendicular crossing of two lines, an intersection, is
"the center of all measurements" -_The Ideas of Le Corbusier_ Granted,
simple shapes exist in nature, and I'm sure that they'll exist w/o man's
presence, but rarely do you see any other species celebrate these shapes.
Bees come closest, with their hexagonal hives. But I perceive this as a
form of function like many bubbles gathered together. Hexagons then
naturally form.
I'll pass on dumping tons more quotes on this subject. But from my
perspective, which may be off kilter -who knows, Man is the only species
known that celebrates simple shapes and uses them as an esthetic, rather than
-or along with- a function.
[down off my soapbox]
amn
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From: amn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Noble)
Subject: Re: Fractal Architecture
Message-ID: <C3EBCJ.2rH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: SDF - Public Access Unix - Dallas, Tx..
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 03:07:30 GMT
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Although I find a lot of merit in the last post, I seem to disagree on one
simple level. Simple shapes are the signature of man.
Now before I get slammed with rebuttals, I'm basing this on Corbusier's
statement that the perpendicular crossing of two lines, an intersection, is
"the center of all measurements" -_The Ideas of Le Corbusier_ Granted,
simple shapes exist in nature, and I'm sure that they'll exist w/o man's
presence, but rarely do you see any other species celebrate these shapes.
Bees come closest, with their hexagonal hives. But I perceive this as a
form of function like many bubbles gathered together. Hexagons then
naturally form.
I'll pass on dumping tons more quotes on this subject. But from my
perspective, which may be off kilter -who knows, Man is the only species
known that celebrates simple shapes and uses them as an esthetic, rather than
-or along with- a function.
[down off my soapbox]
amn
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_ Andrew Noble
| |__ Dallas, Texas
_| * | amn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
\ _/ Compuserve: 71165,412