*POSTPONED- STAY TUNED FOR RESCHEDULED DATE*

Architect Steve Bass presents a view of the proportional idea based in the ancient philosophical systems of Pythagoras, Plato and later Neo-Platonists.  In this view number and geometry, the substance of proportion, are endowed with qualitative, harmonic, life-like properties.  These ideas are then linked to numerical and geometrical methods used to describe the elements of classical architecture in reference literature such as Vitruvius, Vignola and Palladio.  A central theme is the philosophical nature of beauty as a form of the good, beauty's relation to proportion and its significance in classical art.  Such a view of beauty not only fully justifies the study of the classical elements today but could even provide a pathway out of the alienation, anxiety and intentional ugliness of modernism.

6:00pm Cocktails & Hors d'oeuvres

6:45pm Lecture with Book Signing to Follow