... of the mind’s contemplation,moves one toward a confrontation with the divine. Geometry in the sacred space of the temple, theater, or (in the writing of Plato) the architectural product of the cosmos ... conception of the canons of itsmethods of production.Nonetheless, in the face of each of these pitfalls and several others, the biggestchallenge of interpretation may be the challenge to interpret. ... in a certainkind of seeing that is relevant to the question of ideai in the realm of art andbuilding.Pollitt’s characterization of the viewer’s unfolding experience of the sleepinghermaphrodite...