God is a creative God Gen 1:1. All that He created was “good”, could also be translated “beautiful”. God created man in His own image Gen 1:27. Maths helps us discover the beauty that God has created in His world and, in turn, create beautiful designs to serve and enrich the lives of others.

1. Beauty in the
Geometry of Design
CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE

2. For your consideration:
Many architects and designers consider the
following buildings among the “world’s ugliest”:
You might agree or not agree.
However, why do you think “people” consider
these buildings to be ugly?

3. Ryugyong Hotel in
Pyongyang, North Korea
Began construction in 1987, stopped in 1993, left
to rot away, empty. Apparently, North Korea ran
out of funds.
In 2008, refurbished by
adding superficial glass
sheets to give the
appearance of a completed
structure.
The intended finished project
was to look like something
from Dubai

4. Edificio Mirador in Madrid:
Spain
• Developed by Dutch architects
• 63.4 meters high
• 21 stories
• The large central hole is 36.8 meters
above the ground. With a community
garden and a lookout
• Different colors represent different
blocks with different planning - at least
9 different types of apartments

5. The Kaden building, in
Louisville, KY, USA
Stands 61m above suburban Louisville
Reactions to the tower from neighbors, tourists,
locals, and architecture enthusiasts have covered
the entire spectrum from disdain to praise. A
plaque attached to the building describes some
of its history and characterizes it as both
"controversial" and "a jewel.“
(note the ‘lace’ windows)

6. Boston City Hall, in
Massachusetts, USA
Was ‘hip’ in its time
The concrete structure now
gets criticized as dreary and
out of place with the rest of
the city's more ‘genteel’
architecture.

7. The Fang Yuan
Building, Shenyang in
China
Finished in 2001
A weird mishmash of ideas:
• A reference to old Chinese coins, which
have square cutouts—just like the
structure's square center
• Other parts of the design are like a boring
corporate building, with a concrete base
and steel rims with glass grooves on the
sides.

8. Turkmenistan’s
President:
built this
monument to
himself – riding a
horse!

9. Tower of Babel
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the
people were building. 6 The LORD said, “If as one people
speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then
nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let
us go down and confuse their language so they will not
understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and
they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called
Babel[c]—because there the LORD confused the language of the
whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face
of the whole earth. Gen 11:1-9
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech…
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” ... 4 Then they
said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so
that we may make a name for ourselves; …”

10. For your consideration:
Many architects and designers consider the
following buildings among the “world’s most
beautiful”:
You might agree or not agree.
However, why do you think “people” consider
these buildings to be beautiful?

11. What makes the Eiffel tower so beautiful and
recognisable?
What was considered in the design?
Where did man get this talent for creative art?

12. What makes Big Ben in
London so beautiful and
recognisable?
What was considered in
the design?
Where did man get this
talent for creative art?

13. Colosseum

14. Supreme
Court
Darwin

15. Neuschwanstein
Castle

16. Pyramids
of Giza

17. Sydney Harbour Bridge

18. London Eye

19. Power Pylon
Beautiful???

20. Beautiful
Pleasing the senses
Symmetry
Relationship/Depth
Elegance
Harmony
Brevity/ Simplicity/ Economy
Originality
Complexity
Revelation
Power/Fruitfulness
Surprise

21. Beautiful
Proportion
Regularity
Elegance
Predictability

22. God is a creative God Gen 1:1
Maths helps us discover the beauty that God has created in
His world and, in turn, create beautiful designs to serve and
enrich the lives of others.
God created man in His own image Gen 1:27
All that He created was “good”, could also be translated “beautiful”

23. Examples of patterns in nature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature