FINA10040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Herbert Bayer, Cecil Touchon, Studio 2000
23 Oct 2018
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The theory of forms: the material world as it seems to us is not the real world, but only an image or copy of the real world. The forms are roughly speaking archetypes or abstract representations of the many types of things, and properties we feel and see around us, that can only be perceived by (cid:453)reason(cid:454). In other words, two worlds: the apparent world, which constantly changes, and an unchanging and unseen world of (cid:453)ideal(cid:454) forms Squares, circles and triangles (cid:455)data(cid:456) it deals with the nature and implications of (cid:453)given(cid:454) information within geometrical problems. Proportion & (cid:472)the idea of(cid:473) harmony through mathematics. A (cid:433)(cid:434)/(cid:433)(cid:435)th century italian mathematician named (cid:453)fibonacci(cid:454) was interested in finding the (cid:453)golden ratio(cid:454) in nature and idealising it in mathematical form. Rediscovery, remixing/remodeling, remaking an idealised version of an imaginary past . Supported by greek mathematical texts that were kept (cid:453)alive and improved on during the (cid:453)dark ages(cid:454) by the arab empire in spain.
