Christopher Alexander The Nature of Order An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book 1 – The Phenomenon of Life “…every form of order has some degree of life” “thus life is not a limited mechanical concept which applies to self-reproducing biological machines. It is a quality which inheres …
Islamic Tile Patterns Decorative Pages of The Quran Islamic Calligraphy Qaisar Iqbal, 2008 — Arches and Domes
“Consider the beautiful repetition of tiles on a roof, waves in the ocean, cells in the body, the scales of a fish, the blades of grass, the bricks in a wall, the hair on a head… The repetition, by itself, already begins to create a satisfying harmony. Somehow the sense of order in a thing …
I look at Leonardo da Vinci’s illustrations, diagrams, illustrating the theories of light and shade, sketches, illustrating the theory of proportion of the human figure in motion, and I imagine Leonard da Vinci watching water whirling in an eddy, studying the motions of currents, gazing and lost in its flow. I think and I wonder …