Variation is the essence of response; only the commander knows the true configuration behind the visible disposition of force.
Ralph D. Sawyer, “Introduction” for Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, c. 450 BCE
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National Park Service, Sound Map of Natural Conditions of the United States, 2016 (via watershedplus)
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, Sections for the Art + Architecture Building Expansion at Yale University, New Haven, 1963 / 2011
REX, Wyly Theatre, Dallas, TX, c. 2004-8
I only do one design. If I do three, obviously one is going to be the best. You’re only going to want the best, so I’m only going to show you one.
Shigeru Ban, "On Architecture," 2014
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"Michael Mazur suggests that the design comes from drawings made for the sculptural commission before it was actually constructed (in 1956) and records that there are 31 signed examples, two unsigned, and at least one in a private collection. These include seven major variations."
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Bill Wilkinson for Johnson Burgee Architects, "Renderings of Alternate Pediments" for the AT&T Building, Manhattan, NY, 1982 (via archiveofaffinities)
Diagrams of the First Eight Polyminos, 2013
- Monomino (1 Free)
- Domino (1 Free)
- Trominos (2 Free)
- Tetrominos (5 Free)
- Pentominos (18 Free)
- Hexominoes (35 Free)
- Heptominos (108 Free)
- Octominoes (369 Free)
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Carl G. Liungman, "Graphic Characteristics for a Morphology of Symbols" from Symbols: Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms, 1974
Francisco Javier Saenz de Oiza, Diagrammatic Plan Variations of the Torres Blancas, Madrid, Spain, 1964-8
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J.N.L. Durand, Portico Typologies, 1802 (via archiveofaffinities)
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James Stevens Curl, "Capital" from A Dictionary of Architecture (via archiveofaffinities)