Poem of The Right Angle - B. Esprit (Spirit-Blue)

B. Esprit (Spirit-Blue)

This zone represents the links between nature, architecture and the cosmos.

B.2. "Le Modulor" - Corbusier's Modular Man, an iconic illustration of proportion, is juxtaposed with a shell, which Corbusier regarded as an archetypal female form. The shell form also embodies the same proportional values as the Modulor, based on the Golden section.

Its value is in this: the human body chosen as admissible support of numbers... .....Here is proportion!

B.3. This is an overty architectural frame. Floorplates and a foundation are clearly depicted, and an owl, a classic symbol of wisdom, is clearly visible in the foundation.

Cleared of obstacles better that before the house of men mistress of his form takes up her abode in nature Complete in herself making her case on all grounds open to the four horizons

B.4. Another architectural frame which illuminates the concept of the brise soleil through the sun above and the "secret world" below.

The clock and the solar calendar brought to architecture the "brise-soleil" installed in front of the windows of modern buildings

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