“It is in leading the eye into a recognition of infinite minutiae that the room is most cultivated to the implication of infinity” —Walter Dodd Ramberg, Some Aspects of Japanese Architecture, 47
Japanese architecture is intuitive. Rather than axes, spaces are organized in asymmetrical constellations that suggest movement and flow. If Western architecture is defined by columns and planes—the edges—Japanese architecture is defined by their intervals, by space itself.
It is scalar, rather than vector; an architecture based on similar modules that create fractalline details. It finds order not in an imposed grid, but in recognizing and respecting the patterns of nature.
The golden ratio, fibonacci sequence, fractals… in nature lies an appreciation of the infinite game.
