Architect's Toolbox: Light.

In the introduction to Home By Design, Sarah Susanka discusses the "reflecting surfaces" principle whereby architects employ the technique of placing a window adjacent to a perpendicular wall, in order to light up an entire space. What if we look at "perpendiculars" within our classroom content? Would bringing in more "intersections" help illuminate concepts for our youth? A music teacher might teach her students to sing in "rounds" where parts intersect, yet fully layer and enhance a piece. A more advanced musician would be taught fugues, where voices intersect and weave through one another, sometimes at a full perpendiculars. These perpendiculars "flood" the music with richness, the way an architectural space would be "flooded" with light, each transforming the experience into a "work of art."