THE QUEST FOR BEAUTY – IN DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE

The animation is of a storyboard – the actual presentation will be feature movie-clips, photographs, illustrations and animations. The “Quest…” will be a keynote lecture given at the Goods Shed Arts Center in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England Feb 13th 2019 followed by a Workshop Feb 14th. follows mankind’s striving to create designs and architectural structures that enhance the experience of being human. Designs that, so to speak, ‘inspire the soul.’ The presentation follows a pathway of designs from Paleolithic and Neolithic times through the first civilizations, ancient Greece, early Islam, Celtic Europe through to the Renaissance. The presentation reveals designs that were multi-dimensional in the sense that they were intended to impact the human experience on a number of levels; symbolically, logically, emotionally and perceptually – and not only visually but through the form of spaces and through music, dance, chants and more.