Re: The Disney, inside

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> From: Ronald Evitts <revitts@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "Basic and applied design (Art and Architecture)"
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> Subject: Re: The Disney, inside
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:14:24 -0400
>
> i am symmetrical. and i'm afraid (hee hee) i thought the inside kind of
> successful, perhaps because of the symmetry, which i saw as relating to the
> acoustical requirements, audience demands, etc.  the "unbridled" excesses
> of
> the outside, so sculptural, expressionist and poetic/heroic/arrogant
> (depending on your viewpoint) seem to gain poignancy by having the more
> ordered interior as counterpoint, something (gasp) functional.  even
> scharoun was hard-pressed to be asymmetrical in a buidling type that WANTS
> to be symmetrical, he winds up with a generally symmetrical hall, with the
> aforementioned SUBTLE asymmetries.
>
> or is the lack of subtlety the issue?
>
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