Media type: E-Article Title: Elegance, Attenuation, and Geometry: Herta and Paul Amir Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Contributor: Scott Cohen, Preston Published: Wiley, 2007 Published in: Architectural Design, 77 (2007) 1, Seite 54-61 Language: English DOI: 10.1002/ad.397 ISSN: 0003-8504; 1554-2769 Keywords: Visual Arts and Performing Arts ; Architecture Origination: Footnote: Description: AbstractPreston Scott Cohen explores the elegant through the eye of projective geometry. He finds ‘fruitful lessons’ in the architecture of the Baroque, which offers a historical model of anamorphosis (the extreme perspectival condition in which an image appears distorted) and tectonic distortion. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.