What is beauty?
Beauty can be minimized into perfect mathematical proportions, specifically the golden ratio; 1.61803399. Beauty can be found in nature from the smallest plant to the largest animal. Man-made beauty is a reflection of the possible and the necessary to create a form that serves as the solution to a problem with an element of quality.
Firstly, beauty is subjective. Still, there is a consensus for what makes beauty in the natural and man-made world. Whether through utility, function, simplicity, complexity, or mathematical ratio, beauty abounds in the natural world. But since beauty does not define the intention of plants, animals or the built world, what does it take to bush beauty as an agenda against an age of technology, efficiency, and capitalists gains? Good design and beauty are not synonymous. My aim is to look at the past, present and future simultaneously to project beauty into the built environment. Natural beauty is the result of need and adaptation. Part of this study will be to analyze the function of plants and animals in their natural environment, focusing on their adaptations and uses of form. New understanding will then be related to architecture.