Like a fantastic lens the curve focuses the abstract over the real and the speculative over the material. Composition is…

“Like a fantastic lens the curve focuses the abstract over the real and the speculative over the material.

Composition is an overlaying of the seen versus the unseen with potentiality set against the real. What is left in the mind is something different to the canopy, a sculpture of another sort, an unfolding series of informal cuts in an imagined space.

Like the bird in flight over the chasm, whatever we think, the idea is as much in the mind as in the curve in space.

Structure then becomes poetic licence — or a metaphysic in the science of architecture.”

–Cecil Balmond (viainthenoosphere)