Tag: Bauhaus Cube

Raum

A possible answer to the 1923 question of Walter Gropius, "Was ist Raum?"— See also yesterday's Source of the Finite and the image search on the Gropius question in last night's post.

Brutalism Revisited

Yesterday's 11 AM post was a requiem for a brutalist architect. Today's LA Times  has a related obituary: "Architectural historian Alan Hess, who has written several books on…

Source of the Finite

"Die Unendlichkeit  ist die uranfängliche Tatsache: es wäre nur zu erklären, woher das Endliche  stamme…." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Das Philosophenbuch/Le livre du philosophe (Paris: Aubier-Flammarion, 1969), fragment 120, p….

Not Quite

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Altar

"To every man upon this earth, Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and…

Schau der Gestalt

(Continued from Aug. 19, 2014) "Christian contemplation is the opposite of distanced consideration of an image: as Paul says, it is the metamorphosis of the beholder into the…

Diamond Space

(Continued) Definition:  A diamond space  — informal phrase denoting a subspace of AG(6, 2), the six-dimensional affine space over the two-element Galois field. The reason for the name: Click to…