@Wendi Yan

August 23, 2019

Awe may result from the perception of, and need to accommodate, vastness (Keltner & Haidt, 2003, in Yaden et al., 2017).

Vastness can refer to perceptual vastness, as in viewing an enormous mountain or a towering building – or it can refer to conceptual vastness, as in hearing an idea with enormous implications or meditating on the meaning of eternity (Yaden et al., 2018).

1. INFINITY

a. Magnitude

scale

Christo & Jeanne-Claude

Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson

Richard Long

Cenotaph for Newton, Etienne-Louis Boullée

Saffar Studio

Expo'98 Portuguese National Pavilion, Álvaro Siza Vieira

The Pyramid, Ricardo Bofill

material: extreme heaviness & lightness

Richard Serra

National Assembly Building at Bangladesh

Brutalism

Yugoslavian architecture

National Assembly Building at Bangladesh

Phillips Exeter Academy Library

Tomas Saraceno, On Space Time Foam

Tomas Saraceno, On Space Time Foam

Tomas Saraceno, In Orbit

Tomas Saraceno, In Orbit

2013 Serpentine Pavilion, Sou Foujimoto

Tomas Saraceno, Hybrid Web

Tomas Saraceno, Hybrid Web

b. Repetition

Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity

Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity

The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away

The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away

Montparnasse, Paris. Andreas Gursky

Montparnasse, Paris. Andreas Gursky

Times Square, New York. Andreas Gursky

Times Square, New York. Andreas Gursky

Roden Crater, James Turrell

Cordoba House, Emilio Ambasz

Cordoba HOuse, Emilio Ambasz

The Factory, Ricardo Bofill

Da Chang Muslim Cultural Center, Architectural Design & Research Institute of SCUT

Saffar Studio

[Tadao Ando](https://www.archdaily.com/877329/tadao-ando-envelops-giant-buddha-statue-in-lavender-planted-hill-temple )](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/6243d987-6359-4bc6-b86a-ca06bdfa89be/Screen_Shot_2017-08-08_at_1.10.30_PM.jpg)

[Tadao Ando](https://www.archdaily.com/877329/tadao-ando-envelops-giant-buddha-statue-in-lavender-planted-hill-temple](https://www.archdaily.com/877329/tadao-ando-envelops-giant-buddha-statue-in-lavender-planted-hill-temple))

[Tadao Ando](https://www.archdaily.com/877329/tadao-ando-envelops-giant-buddha-statue-in-lavender-planted-hill-temple )](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/7602fed7-6cbb-4d37-813a-cf2ecf1838b7/Screen_Shot_2017-08-08_at_1.10.08_PM.jpg)

BIG

When individuals encounter something that cannot be reduced to preexisting elements in a given schema, they must “accommodate,” expanding that framework to take new information into account. (Markus, 1977, in Yaden et al., 2016)L