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I should make an entry series about interesting things that I deem worthy for other "intellectuals" to read, especially of those who have more or the same interests as I do.

I was looking for M.C. Escher's work when I bumped into this

http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=IFP.009.0007A

There's an excerpt from there that reminds me about Ayn Rand, Roark, and that one Architecture Garfield or so, I had forgotten the name. But either way it is quite true especially for all architectures and for those who knows "true" art.

"Stairwars of the Mind" by Juhani Pallasmaa Ph.D.

"Our materialist culture has turned buildings into objects of utility devoid of any mytho-poetic content. However, in addition to providing physical shelter, buildings should also house our souls, memories and dreams. Like all art, architecture expresses the human existential condition, and our lived space and mind define each other reciprocally. Architecture addresses the body and is experienced multi-sensorily. Fundamental architectural experiences are encounters that appear as verbs rather than nouns. One of the most potent images of architecture is the stair, which possesses a wealth of metaphoric and symbolic connotations. The stair is the symbolic spine of the house, whereas ascending a stair in dream-imagery signifies copulation. The qualitative differences of ascending and descending derive from the images of Heaven and Hell. Stairs appear frequently in literature, cinema and painting due to their extraordinary image power. The staircase is simultaneously a stage and an auditorium. It is also a vertical configuration of the labyrinth with consequent associations of vertigo, and getting lost. Our human reality has become threateningly concrete and one-dimensional as the environment has lost its symbolic dimension. One of the most demanding tasks of architects today is to re-mythologize and re-poetisize the built environment. Is it feasible that stairs would again come to express the existence of Heaven and Hell?"

Btw, I have to research more about M.C. Esher's work to talk about it but feel free to visit this link http://members.lycos.nl/amazingart/E/artist7.html to see his magnifent optical illusions!
and of course this: http://www.mcescher.com/