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Show You have the frame in the frame out and the frame up, Man has been convinced of his superiority over nature from the beginning. Every where man imposes his patterns across the landscape to show his comprehension of the godly order of things as Kenneth Clark reminds us: "...one must remember that to medieval man geometry was a divine activity. God was the great geometer, and this concept inspired the architect." (11) Gothic cathedrals were conceived as monuments to God. Yet creation was not laid out with compass and T square. From the beginning space and the heavens were infinitely varied in God's order. What the mind does not comprehend it does not see. I must express my bewilderment at the panorama of 7000 years of architectural history. It is as if one of the main cogs of -23- |