Word: poetic
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...Homer's day, the Iliad and the Odyssey were known as poesis, which means history in poetic or pleasing form. It was the only form of history they had then," McKeage says...
Like many other poetic legends, it is only half true. Rilke was infected by a thorn in 1926, the last year of his life, but he died of leukemia. Even more misleading is the enduring impression of a precious, hypersensitive...
...this difficult task, Pelli proved an excellent choice. His signature material is glass, and he is one of the very few architects who can still squeeze some poetic drops from the overworked convention of the curtain wall. Basically, he does this by playing down the frame of mullions and spandrels and emphasizing the wall's nature as a pictorial surface, a sheet rilled with color patches and reflections. MOMA'S street façades, sheathed in blue-gray and white glass, extend and echo the window bands of the 1939 facade on the lower floors; and when...
These advertisements are almost prose poems. They give the word soap suds a bubbly shiny individual meaning which is very skillfully poetic, would perhaps be quite poetic to the mind, which could forget that the poetry was bait on a hook." --D.H. Lawrence, "Pornography and Obscenity...
...think the school tries to produce students that have a level of competency, but you ought to be more than competent--you ought to be poetic," says fourth-semester architecture student Jonathan Marvel. "The school tries to do everything, and in doing so I think it loses a lot in the field of theory...