architecture is magic

[killing raven sun]

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The architect as magician proposes that architects can enrich their design processes by examining the traditions of magic. It suggests that many architects have lost essential elements by eliminating the ideas of magic from their architecture. This loss is important because concepts of magic may provide architects with crucial analogies and metaphors needed to en-chant a building’s inhabitants and aid in an understanding of inspiration
and creativity. Partially responsible for this loss has been a disenchantment
brought about by science and rational thinking that is evident in moder-
nity, leading to a gradual decline in mystery and magic. In contrast to
disenchantment, since the seventeenth century most philosophers dene
enchantment as the residual, subordinate “other” to modernity’s scientic,
rational, secular and progressive side. Some, such as the historian Jason
Josephson-Storm, have questioned the emergence of disenchantment, la-
beling it as a “myth.” He takes the position that the belief in magic or
mysticism did not decline in the West. Moreover, many theorists of dis-
enchantment, including the sociologist Max Weber, were well aware of
modern magical and occult movements and engaged with them. Neither
Weber nor the social anthropologist James George Frazer envisioned a rigid
divide between rationality and magical thinking, and they did not describe
a need for “re- enchantment” to undo disenchantment. Josephson-Storm
believes we should reinterpret Weber’s idea of disenchantment as referring
to the sequestering and professionalization of magic. The political theorist
Jane Bennett also challenges the disenchantment of modernity thesis put
forward by Weber. Her work points to new sources of enchantment in our
lives today. She describes a wide range of sources of enchantment, such as
in nature, but also in modern technology, advertising, and even bureau-
cracy. Bennett notes that enchantment offers us a sense of openness to the
unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life.
Although historical examples establish that enchantment has been con-
tinually evident in architecture, the discussion will propose that architects
need to pursue enchantment in their work. Architects need to understand
that to enchant means to exert magical influence upon, to bewitch, lay
under a spell; also to endow with magical powers or properties; to charm,
delight, enrapture. For architects, magical enchantment engages concepts
of wonder, myth, ritual, the divine and the spiritual, and is demonstrated
by the phenomenological experience of architectural space

 

[Taudefindi]

Design is magic by design.
It would do well for jobs that deal with different areas of design to study about the history of magic.

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

I agree with Taudefindi. Let's take the pyramid of Giza for example, or any of them. You have a four triangles, three sides on each side, where the triangle is magic and is a portal. Question - With them being so big on sky deities, why was it not a cube but a pyramid? What's the point?
If you said radio band you are very very close.
Why do you think there are pyramid structures in four different regions around the globe in almost the same design? Who's communicating?
What about the Bermuda triangle and the Devil Triangle?
Why does freemasonry have a particular design to their buildings and flooring?

 

[killing raven sun]

there are three forms of magic, three sins against harmony:

1. moving earth
2. cutting earth
3. burning earth

all experience proceeds from these actions, any time you put a knife to wood you are using magic, every created thing is a talisman

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

I dont know about "sin against harmony", but speaking of harmony, I think there is a harmonic series that is put to the test with sacred geometry and sacred architecture. Ever see oils style houses, built before the 1900s? There is a particular architecture to every house except for cookie cutter houses, and even then there are certain geometrical designs to them.
As for the pyramids, there is in fact a radio band off limits to the public that was at one time being researched. Although not a huge fan of Sitchin, he had some interesting tidbits to say in Genesis or Eden Revisited. The pyramids, according to Sacred Magic of Ancient Egypt, had a sacred and preplanned architecture, more than secret tunnels and walkways and tombs although related, as there was a cosmology, funerary practices to bring the deceased to a pain free afterlife, and the design of anything and everything was sacred.

 

[killing raven sun]

nature is at harmony with itself, none of its components can err, consciousness is the foundation of natural reality, as masters of consciousness we have freedom, that freedom allows us to do the wrong thing, magic, we can reorder nature according to our abilities, but nature does not like to be fucked with, remember we are talking about electric force controlled by the mind, push too hard the wrong way and it will explode and kill you, or worse, if you damage your electrical system with retarded thoughts your charge capacity is diminished, you become a weak minded npc

 

[Nobody]

Architeture is just a kind of frozen music. The shape that frequencies and vibrations take from certain sounds just being stuck in 3D shape forever therefore music is just fluid architecture.