Majestic Metal
“The dream was gone.
Something had been taken from him …
The gates were closed, the sun had gone down,
and there was no beauty
but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time.
Even the grief he could have borne
was left behind in the country of illusion,
of youth, of the richness of life
where his winter dreams had flourished.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams, 1922
Images by Elijah Porter (Yale School of Architecture) from Material Formation in Design. What BldgBlog called a study in subtractive origami where just the right geometry of cuts and slices in a solid piece of steel can activate the otherwise overlooked – or even unknown – baroque possibilities of a precious material.
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