Various titles of Bruce Nauman artworks Sound Breaking Wall Get Out of My Mind, Get Out of This Room False Silence Flayed Earth Flayed Self (Skin/Sink) Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care Bruce Nauman, Stealth Architecture: The Rooms of Light and Space horroreuphony
Empty rooms A Quote by Bruce Nauman I don't think empty rooms are ever really empty. I think we subconsciously put our emotions into them. emotionemptiness
The informing idea of functionalism The informing idea of functionalism is what is called elegance by engineers and scientists—the notion that the best solution to a problem (whether applied to a mathematical proof, a machine, or an organizational diagram) is the most succinct. This conceit collapses the technical, the ethical, and the aesthetic, which powers the idea exponentially. Michael Sorkin, 20 Minutes in Manhattan The Nature and Aesthetics of Design functionaesthetics