historic parametrics

I picket up a "A System of Architectural Ornament" by Sullivan last week, and have just gotten around to flipping through it, and I am struck by the diagrammatic progression of his ornamentation.





Hand parametrics.

And it feels so much -nicer- than our system of parametrics because it accepts that it is art, poetry, and humanely derived without relying on the "rationality of mathematics" [which most architectural parametrics are only loosely based on].

Also... I mostly love that he uses the words "phantasmagoriam obscurantism" to describe our preconceptions of what man is.