An interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the fruits of tradition, if correctly understood: http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Think-Like-Shakespeare/237593 Quote: “You simply cannot transform tradition (a creative ideal) without first knowing it (a conserving ideal).” The article confirms the common sense insight that any achievement in any field is based upon mastering the rules by immersion…
Month: September 2016
Poetics of order
The well-known architect Leon Krier, the great inspirator and theorist of a new, humane architecture and urban planning, based upon an interpretation of classical architecture, has said: ‘Classical architecture is atemporal, like mathematics’: Conference 2014 Videos Further elaborations by Krier makes clear, that this transcendental quality is due not to the invention of proportions, but…