 |
| bladzijde 3 by ingrid siliakus |
 |
| Stone IV IX MMXI by andrea russo |
But the most sublime geometrizing is by Anne Tyng, an architect whose life work to 'inhabit geometry' has recently been the subject of an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, featuring habitable platonic solids that would be AMAZING on the playground.
 |
| photo by Matthew Suib/Greenhouse Media |
So look at that and then look at this:
Not good enough. Not anywhere near good enough.
Reminds me of the time we built a dodecahedron at school out of 8-foot bamboo canes with bolted hose pipe joints.
ReplyDeleteIt enclosed an apple tree and could be lifted (with care) by one person. It was pegged down and lasted several weeks, before collapsing.
Visible over the garden wall it attracted a lot of interest.