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How A Study in Architecture Can Help Us See the Awe In Every Day Life
Our world starves for sensations and experiences the internet cannot provide.
Information feeds and status updates are not the ideal environment for development and improvement. Our forced isolation from society starved ourselves from experiences and sensations we need to be a whole person. We can walk along the Nile online, but we can’t experience it or be aroused by broader sights, sounds, and sensations unless we are there. We can’t feel the sand under our feet, the wind through our hair, or the smell of a camel from our home computer.
French architect Etienne Louis Boullée believed that the art of architecture was an imitation of the Divine art of nature. If an artist was able to excite the sensations felt when people experience seeing natural objects they would have discovered an art far superior to the Divine’s architecture. Boullée’s belief reminds us of the awe in nature and its ability to excite our senses. It reminds of the grandeur that can be found in everyday life. Something we are hard pressed to find in a viral world of tweets and updates.
I look at my computer and see a glass screen. At the top is a blue header and white page. I see black words and white spaces. In front of me is a bigger screen and the image…
