Sunday, October 22, 2000

Apparently there is a goal for all patterns and their products. IIt has been deemed "the quality without a name" (QWAN for short) by an architecture professor at Berkeley, and it gives overwhelming beauty and value to a structure. It incorporates symmetry, balance, wholeness, order, cognitive resonance, and a few more things. This QWAN goes past "beauty in the eyes of the beholder" and encompasses everyone everywhere in the world.

Is that really possible!? This QWAN can be universal throughout every culture and every lifestyle? I'm kind of thinking that "QWAN" should have really been named "perfection" . . . and architects at Berkeley should do something (like maybe hire an English teacher or buy a thesaurus) to prevent themselves from being associated with extremely vague concepts and acronyms.

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