The viewer's eye has no choice but to examine the intricacies of the otherwise mundane structures and machines.
Infrastructure investing, which takes stakes in mundane structures like toll roads and airports, has proven one of the biggest recent draws in the world of private equity.
Palladio had a gift for composition, for combining solids and voids, curves and straight lines, depth and flatness, in nearly perfect equilibrium, and he was among the first to think of classicism as a vocabulary that could transform mundane structures into something special.
The paper also shows that a "mundane" organisational structure put the staff in a crucial position to influence board debates and sheds light on how disciplinary and self-disciplinary techniques affected board members' decision-making in the framework project.
Finally, inclusivism has its own commonsense justification: we standardly refer to a creator of a mundane built structure as the architect, which seems less a linguistic shortcut than recognition of the training and ethos attached to the creator of architectural objects.
A developer wants to convert an abandoned power plant of the New York Central Railroad, an enormous, industrial castle dating from a century ago, a time when monumentality was routinely conferred upon even the most mundane civic structures.
The metaphysics of architecture covers a surprising range of questions for those who see in architecture no more than metaphysically mundane built structures or stones, wood, metal, and concrete arranged in a pleasing fashion: the nature of architectural objects and their properties and types, the relations of architectural parts and wholes, and the prospect of architectural causality.
Its dimensions are beyond mundane measure, its structure shaped mostly by unknown matter.
Materials including seemingly mundane objects and structures shape people's expectations on what to expect in such an environment and become part of epistemic configurations (Roehl 2012).
What strikes us the most is the way this technique of gathering and re-organizing individual objects transforms the mundane objects into structures emanate a striking energy.
