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"Less is more' is the notion that simplicity and clarity lead to good design. Then how is it related to the underlined part "aspiring to ....and order"? Can you explain it?
Does it mean "you should even control emotions by concrete shapes"? I don't get it!
ex)The modernist maxim "less is more", coined by architect Meis Van der Rohe in the thirties, is an idea that dates back millenia. Van der Rohe was something of a classicist. The only difference between him and the architects of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C was a sensibility and style born of the machine age.Van der Rohe was an artist of his time, but the fundamental tenets that guided his work were the same as those that governed his ancestors.
Balance, harmony,and simplicity have long been cornerstones of artistic activity, whether referring to ancient Greeks and Romans or modern Europeans. Aspiring to an emotional and physical equilibrium, which is rational rather than intuitive, means that even abstract compositions made up of cleanly defined geometrical shapes express classicl principles of restraint and order.
Does it mean "you should even control emotions by concrete shapes"? I don't get it!
ex)The modernist maxim "less is more", coined by architect Meis Van der Rohe in the thirties, is an idea that dates back millenia. Van der Rohe was something of a classicist. The only difference between him and the architects of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C was a sensibility and style born of the machine age.Van der Rohe was an artist of his time, but the fundamental tenets that guided his work were the same as those that governed his ancestors.
Balance, harmony,and simplicity have long been cornerstones of artistic activity, whether referring to ancient Greeks and Romans or modern Europeans. Aspiring to an emotional and physical equilibrium, which is rational rather than intuitive, means that even abstract compositions made up of cleanly defined geometrical shapes express classicl principles of restraint and order.