Shaping The City: Straight Lines And Curves

Why do right angles and straight lines pervade architecture? Roger K. Lewis celebrates non-rectilinear buildings.

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April 8, 2002, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Some architectural theorists, and perhaps some psychologists, would argue that the rationally minded are drawn to orthogonal order while the romantically minded are drawn to organic, curvilinear or irregular forms.Yet these two mentalities are not mutually exclusive."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Celebrating Architecture With Curves in All the Right Places

Monday, April 8, 2002 in The Washington Post

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