The Shape OF THINGS
May 10, 2018
2 minutes
WORDS PETE COLQUHOUN
one of my favourite sayings in architecture is: “man created right angles but God created curves”. And it’s this innate majestic attraction to curves that has, over the centuries, imbued great design with forms otherwise found in nature.
In terms of design history, theory and myth, the circle is universally acknowledged as the communal form — early pagan temples were circular, as is most indigenous
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