Architecture Unit 4. "But thou hast arranged all things by measure and number and weight. " Book of Wisdom of Solomon, from the OT Apocrypha., XI, 20. Elementary Number Symbolism The Pythagoreans were not the only ones who gave symbolic meaning to numbers. According to Vincent Hopper, "nothing in the history of number symbolism is so striking as the unanimity of all ages and climates in regard to the meanings of a few number symbols. " He refers to this as elementary number symbolism.
Architecture Unit 10. Celestial Themes in Art & Architecture "When he established the heavens I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the deep:" Proverbs, Chapter 8 par. 27 Slide 4-38: MICHELANGELO: Creation of the Sun Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Architecture Unit 16. Slide 19-12: Mondrian: Composition, 1933 In this unit we will show some of the roots of geometric abstraction in the Twentieth Century, and present an overview of some of the early movements. Up to now we've seen paintings, sculpture, and architecture that had geometric elements: geometric figures, particular ratios like the golden ratio and the musical ratios, and where space was organized by the geometric perspective construction.