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Symmetries (photos from the B-Cube series)

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  Author: N.  Ï l ï e „The B-Cube photo series began as a test of a tablet app. The result was beyond expectations. It was extraordinary how architectural symmetry can be visually complemented with elements of optical symmetry to include within it (or extend it with) natural elements and primordial principles – such as sky and earth. The need for symmetry is or is not an aesthetic value. (More precisely, there are architectural aesthetics that rightly – and with spectacular results – deny the desire for symmetry). However, as a value or just a derivative of some aesthetic values, symmetry is, for us humans, a cosmic force.” Arta grafica In the many writings devoted to symmetry before it went out of fashion, it was considered, following Plato, an ingredient of beauty and harmony. Perhaps this was the mistake for which, after modernism, symmetry was considered boring and was gradually abandoned. In reality, it is not an ingredient of anything. Symmetry (like asymmetry and antisy...

Architectural Monuments: Kanazawa Museum of Contemporary Art - video

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The Kanazawa Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the iconic works of modern architecture. Thanks to this work, the architects received the Pritzker Prize, considered by architecture experts to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prizes. The architects are the Japanese Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa. Here is a photo gallery of this masterpiece of modern architecture: Architects Kazuyo Sejima [...] The complete "Architectural Monuments: Kanazawa Museum of Contemporary Art" see more on Art & Culture Blog / Romanian language, but translation enabled