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Perhaps he shouldn't have used the word 'never' (never say never again), but you've unfairly represented the article. The Parthenon-and-golden-ratio image is no
by albumen 2y ago
Perhaps he shouldn't have used the word 'never' (never say never again), but you've unfairly represented the article. The Parthenon-and-golden-ratio image is not used as a reference; it is related reading. And if you visit that article, you see it's about how the Parthenon is NOT designed after the Golden Ratio!
The main article's point about nested levels of repetition is interesting, and it introduced me to Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order books.
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- card_zero 2y ago> if you visit that article, you see it's about how the Parthenon is NOT designed after the Golden Ratio! Oh, so it is! That's refreshing. I didn't expect the link to lead to an article at all, I expected to be invited to buy the book on Amazon. I don't know, though. He comprehensively demolishes myths about the golden ratio except when promoting his own one. Those rectangular proportions won't lead to good architecture, but "The Golden Mean does apply to architectural composition in the context of scaling hierarchy that organizes complexity" because "Design is linked mathematically with natural growth through hierarchical subdivisions at distinct scales, which is found in a majority of natural structures." Ignore their woo-woo, try mine!