Design
Le Corbusier and the Biology of Beauty in Design
At the Venice Bienniale, an exhibit furthers the notion of an evolutionary single standard for what we find visually appealing.
Even in the midst of a busy workweek, the notice got my attention: an invitation to a Venetian palace during the 56th Venice Bienniale, the stylish arts, film, and architecture festival that is a sort of continental combo of TED and Burning Man, with its inexplicable art installations astride gondola-dotted canals.
The Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, I read, were proud to present a show called PROPORTIO at the Palazzo Fortuny—an exhibition that “will explore the omnipresence of universal proportions in art, science, music, and architecture.”