Notre Dame School of Architecture is the most classical design school left...in the worst looking building ever conceived...a kluge of different styles on purpose, mashed together.
Also, thanks for posting on beauty. One of the biggest struggles with students is getting them to understand the beauty of something like Pride and Prejudice, or architecture, or etc; and, of course, that being able to articulate the greatness and appreciate it is a study in itself. It reminds me of C.S. Lewis in "The Weight of Glory:"
[E]njoyment of Greek poetry is certainly a proper, and not a mercenary, reward for learning Greek; but only those who have reached the stage of enjoying Greek poetry can tell from their own experience that this is so. The schoolboy beginning Greek grammar cannot look forward to his adult enjoyment of Sophocles as a lover looks forward to marriage or a general to victory. He has to begin by working for marks, or to escape punishment, or to please his parents, or, at best, in the hope of a future good which he cannot at present imagine or desire. His position, therefore, bears a certain resemblance to that of the mercenary; the reward he is going to get will, in actual fact, be a natural or proper reward, but he will not know that till he has got it. Of course, he gets it gradually; enjoyment creeps in upon the mere drudgery, and nobody could point to a day or an hour when the one ceased and the other began. But it is just in so far as he approaches the reward that he becomes able to desire it for its own sake; indeed, the power of so desiring it is itself a preliminary reward.
It is fun. I started really bad at it but am getting better. It is a sneaky core workout. One of those where I'm so busy trying to no fall off that I barely notice my core getting smoked after a few minutes of struggle.
Notre Dame School of Architecture is the most classical design school left...in the worst looking building ever conceived...a kluge of different styles on purpose, mashed together.
https://educationsnapshots.com/projects/9792/university-of-notre-dame-matthew-and-joyce-walsh-family-hall-of-architecture/
It's an eyesore.
Yeah that one failed.
Also, thanks for posting on beauty. One of the biggest struggles with students is getting them to understand the beauty of something like Pride and Prejudice, or architecture, or etc; and, of course, that being able to articulate the greatness and appreciate it is a study in itself. It reminds me of C.S. Lewis in "The Weight of Glory:"
[E]njoyment of Greek poetry is certainly a proper, and not a mercenary, reward for learning Greek; but only those who have reached the stage of enjoying Greek poetry can tell from their own experience that this is so. The schoolboy beginning Greek grammar cannot look forward to his adult enjoyment of Sophocles as a lover looks forward to marriage or a general to victory. He has to begin by working for marks, or to escape punishment, or to please his parents, or, at best, in the hope of a future good which he cannot at present imagine or desire. His position, therefore, bears a certain resemblance to that of the mercenary; the reward he is going to get will, in actual fact, be a natural or proper reward, but he will not know that till he has got it. Of course, he gets it gradually; enjoyment creeps in upon the mere drudgery, and nobody could point to a day or an hour when the one ceased and the other began. But it is just in so far as he approaches the reward that he becomes able to desire it for its own sake; indeed, the power of so desiring it is itself a preliminary reward.
Appreciate the content and link to the Gibbon Balance Board.
It is fun. I started really bad at it but am getting better. It is a sneaky core workout. One of those where I'm so busy trying to no fall off that I barely notice my core getting smoked after a few minutes of struggle.