AP&M and Muir Biology

Warm and sunny day today :). When i woke up from a late morning nap, on the Sun God Lawn right in front of the two great grey buildings of UCSD, i saw a lone raven gliding down the buildings. huge was he who had feathers dark as the night. and he glid down the building, cutting the vertical lines that run from the top to the bottom of the grey giant M2B, disturbing the neat linear arrangement of the design. Maybe i shouldn't call that disturbing, because it really brought something close to liveliness to the lines, the long and hard lines. in a pretty curve, he came down, with the tip of his wing almost brushing against the grey concrete, which seemed to be brightened up by the fluid movement, as if a playful child trying to draw the attention of a serious old man. surprisingly, such a brief and geometric encounter moved me greatly.

and that brought me to appreciating the two buildings for quite a while. looking at it, tracing the straight lines and the many faces with my eyes, i thought for the first time, hmmm, they actually look very nice. the long and continuous strips that flow smoothly down M2B in pure grey colour reminds me a little of the greek pillars, only this building is even simpler than that. the geometrical arrangement of the rectangles on AP&M, each enclosing a little window in it, is better than anything else in telling us about the clean and elegant beauty of mathematics. the honest colour of concrete gives the buildings a plain look but a somehow sophisticated character. there the two buildings sit, in an intervention of modernity and classicism, somewhere between vibrancy and authority.