our square does NOT fit our circle
Saturday, November 20, 2004
Vitruvian Man, Our Square Peg in the Circle
our square does NOT fit our circle
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A discussion of the apparent purpose of the Vitruvian Man, without discussing its signification:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.aiwaz.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=24
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ReplyDeleteThe important thing in the time between Pythagoras and DaVinci was understanding the geometry of Place. Today, we are way past the patterns, and now we are enveloped in the evolutional dynamism of Time itself.
What architecture used to do -- building for humans over ages -- it no longer does. We are now building for programs -- the programs that feed and process information.
A discussion of the apparent purpose of the Vitruvian Man, without discussing its signification:
http://www.aiwaz.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=24
The pre-Galilean (alchemical/astrological) signification -- the import of "finding" the square in the circle -- is ventilated at http://thealchemicalegg.com/VitruviusN.html
Of course, Vitruvius himself was an architect. But there is a continuing Influence on architecture, understanding that the "vanishing point" is "in" the picture, is closer than it looks, and is hidden. Compare, http://www.bombsite.com/pfeiffer/pfeiffer5.html
Peter pulls in a remarkably detailed and long pre-science sequence. http://www.cosmologies.com/treeoflife