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The structuring vacuum.

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In art, as well as in life, we need " vacuums " that can be times of reflection, analysis or assimilation. We can imagine, for example, “Toccata and Fugue” by J. S. Bach, we will immediately realize the importance of silences. Between silences and notes the piece is structured; between empty and full, architecture and city are created, in fact, we inhabit the contained vacuum. What happens when this in architecture is not considered? I take the license to criticize those architects who have their checklist and forget about beauty. They simplify architecture to a harshly technical discipline like an automaton artificial intelligence program would. Where is all that feeling that the architect must put to their work? Artificial intelligence may write poetry, in the future, who knows, but for the moment let us design those four facades with a bit of art and humanity. Let us give that interior space a certain dignity. For that architect who complies only with the square meters and...

Mathematics in the arts.

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Intelligence is propelled by the engines of creativity, originality and imagination. It is the ability to imagine, recreate fictions, beautify paradises or hells. Necessity and creativity are the main sources for the development of the brain and the tools that have accompanied us for this century. The greatness of the human is shown through the concatenation of ideas and concepts in the world of imagination and then their materialization by current means. Intelligence is propelled by the engines of creativity, originality and imagination. It is the ability to imagine, recreate fictions, beautify paradises or hells. Necessity and creativity are the main sources for the development of the brain and the tools that have accompanied us for this century. The greatness of the human is shown through the concatenation of ideas and concepts in the world of imagination and then their materialization by current means. Let's look back a bit, in the field of graphic arts and looking for a histor...