Beauty Memory Unity: Proportion and the Animation of Matter, A Live, Online Lecture with Architect and Educator Steve Bass

Name: Beauty Memory Unity: Proportion and the Animation of Matter, A Live, Online Lecture with Architect and Educator Steve Bass — Morbid Anatomy
Start: 2022-03-07T19:00:00-0500
End: 2022-03-07T20:30:00-0500

Monday, March 7, 2022
7:00 PM 8:30 PM 19:00 20:30

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Time: 7 pm EST
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In this presentation, architect and Educator Steve Bass will offer a view of the proportional idea based in the ancient philosophical systems of Pythagoras, Plato and later Neo-Platonists. In these systems number and geometry, the substance of proportion, are endowed with qualitative, harmonic, life-like properties. These ideas are linked to the numerical and geometrical methods used to describe the elements of classical architecture in reference literature such as Vitruvius, Vignola and Palladio. A central theme is the philosophical nature of beauty as a form of the good, beauty's relation to proportion and to the vitalization of matter in classical art. Such a view of beauty not only fully justifies the study of the classical today but could provide a possible pathway out of the alienation, anxiety and intentional ugliness of modernism.

Steve Bass is an architect in practice since 1974. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute, 1970; a Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art, London, 1991,where he studied under the direction of Dr. Keith Critchlow; and was a participant in the initial Prince of Wales's Summer Course in Architecture, 1990. Steve is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art in New York City where he teaches on the theme of proportion and geometry in design.