Great quote discussed by Christian Lindholm in his LIFT Asia talk:
“Beauty: the adjustement of all parts proportionally so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole“
Leon Battista Alberti, 1435
This is a blog by Nicolas Nova. I undertake user/field research at LIFTlab: I study people's practices as well as usage of technologies and turn them into insights, ideas, prototypes or recommendations to inform design and foresight.
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September 5th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
The definition of Beauty depends on the History time. Umberto Eco wrote a book about Beauty in the (East) Middle Age : before proportion, the main aim for artworkers was the Light (think about glasswork) and after it was something like spiral (spiritual wind toward an hypothetic heaven : strairs in baroque area).
This quote reminds me of the famous one : less is more (by an architect as well)