Finding non-obvious yet simple and elegant ways to arrange elements that seem like they wouldn't belong together
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I think symmetry and other strong visual regularities only offer a fairly superficial form of beauty, because they make your design quite predictable -- even boring. I find it more interesting to seek harmony between richly diverse parts. Add unpredictability to elegance
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An extreme case is something like the Apple spaceship -- utterly self-similar. I think a beautiful building is one that is interesting to explore, that offers a variety of surprising views that are all beautiful in their own way
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See Christopher Alexander’s ‘The Nature of Order’ for thousands of pages of wisdom in this vein
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So Stanley Kubrick is not your man
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If you think of art as being the reminder that life is the singular exception in a clockwork universe, then yes. If you think of our ability to create symmetry as a poignant reminder that we are made up of the same math as everything else, then maybe no
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This is a great articulation of wabi-sabi: "Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, roughness... and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
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