Geometry of Architecture
I’ve gone down the Architectural route with for this weeks WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge : Geometry as I feel it’s the one true profession that begins with geometry and since earliest times, architects have relied on these mathematical principles. Even the famous Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius believed that builders should always use precise ratios when constructing temples. “For without symmetry and proportion no temple can have a regular plan,” Vitruvius wrote in his famous Ten Books on Architecture. These proportions Vitruvius recommended were modelled after the human bodies precise ratio of – 1 to PHI (1.618) – which exists in every part of nature, from Jack Russell’s to the Moon. This divine geometric ratio, or divine proportion, has been called the building block of all life.
These sacred principles of geometry are not only confined to great temples and monuments, geometry shapes all buildings, particularly in these geometric forms that grace the skyline of my home town of Leeds. There’s the old Leeds Corn Exchange using draftsman geometric skills of ages-past, to the new Broadcasting House lovingly nicknamed The Rusty Nail which was designed using the latest geometric Building Information Modelling (BIM) techniques with Revit software, either way their foundations start with Geometry… I hope you enjoy all my photography of them…I do 🙂
Geek Carl 
Nice pics!
Thanks 🙂
Your post are the best I’ve seen for this weeks challenge, the geometric shapes in these buildings are sharp 🙂
Thanks Abby, that’s very kind of you to say 🙂 …I was lucky having a perfect blue sky day for taking them
Very interesting buildings!
Thanks Ioanna, its quite an interesting city for Architecture
Holy Gaucamole!!!! That’s a lot of eccentric, wonderful, interesting looking architechtures. My Walt Disney Concert Hall post is now feeling so shy compared to these umpteen amount of building collection. Kudos!
Holy Gaucamole!!!! That’s a lot of eccentric, wonderful, interesting looking architechtures. My Walt Disney Concert Hall post is now feeling so shy compared to these umpteen amount of building collection. Kudos!
Thanks buddy, If I had the choice I’d rather do just one of the Walt Disney Concert Hall 🙂
Let’s switch places even for just a day. 😀
I agree, it reminds me of the film The Holiday 🙂
These look almost surreal. Great photos.
Thanks Elaine 🙂
Carl, again really good view and dimensions for these Geometry photos. Thanks for liking my entries in Weekly Photo Challenge. Please note that my STORM entry was created out of a need/ feeling that I needed to document our most recent Hurricane Sandy. So if you or anyone else wants to work with my created challenge then find a photo that means Storm to you. Let’s see what happens. Jean-Bernard.
That’s a beautifulk set of pictures!
Amazing photos!
Thanks 🙂 🙂