Serene Buddhas

"I love machines . . . on their concrete bases, like serene Buddhas squatting on their timeless lotus" 
Henri Van der Velde, quoted in Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, The Indivisibility of Design, 1962

Willi Baumeister - Mauerbild Mit Kreis - 1923

Robert Michel - 200 Horsepower Double "Gnome" Rotary Engine - 1921-22

Gerald Murphy - Watch - 1925

Technology reaching it's fulfillement - Charles Sheeler

"Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, 

it transcends into architecture."
Mies van der Rohe, Blackstone Hotel Speech on April 17, 1950

Charles Sheeler - The Upper Deck - 1929

Charles Sheeler - Water - 1945

Charles Sheeler - Golden Gate - 1955


"Any sufficiently advanced technology 
is indistinguishable from magic"
Arthur C. Clarke, Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, 1962