> Objects and buildings feature a hierarchy of centers – distinctive features which attract the spectator's eye.
I think it's weird to consider the people interacting with buildings as "spectators". Presumably a building serves purposes other than being seen. Though these were posed by an architect, "residents", "occupants", "users" etc are never mentioned -- only "spectators".
Indeed, it seems the author chose to separate behavior of the "user/creator" from aesthetic for the purpose of this argument. Which could be perhaps due to the author trying to separate their own ego from these sort of trueisms that they perceive to be inherent constructs that all structures/objects contain. However, it seems we can see their ego still in their use of the word "spectator", which I would argue is how the author has placed themselves.
Where I think they were going with this I'll explain in an example. If you take an urban city, the centers are the buildings, the shops, businesses, etc, where meaning and behavior has been centered and distributed across a grid of streets. The streets would represent the lowest hierarchy, as on the streets its anarchy of meaning wherein the occupants of the street bear little collective purpose. But once you enter a store, suddenly there is a unified purpose seen in the design of the store and the behavior of it's occupants that mutually reinforce each other. Such that these hierarchies are easily distinguishable(their attraction). To be attracted to something one must first define the boundaries of the object, one is attracted to a collection of behaviors or manifestations of nature that they construct as an object.
I think it's weird to consider the people interacting with buildings as "spectators". Presumably a building serves purposes other than being seen. Though these were posed by an architect, "residents", "occupants", "users" etc are never mentioned -- only "spectators".
Where I think they were going with this I'll explain in an example. If you take an urban city, the centers are the buildings, the shops, businesses, etc, where meaning and behavior has been centered and distributed across a grid of streets. The streets would represent the lowest hierarchy, as on the streets its anarchy of meaning wherein the occupants of the street bear little collective purpose. But once you enter a store, suddenly there is a unified purpose seen in the design of the store and the behavior of it's occupants that mutually reinforce each other. Such that these hierarchies are easily distinguishable(their attraction). To be attracted to something one must first define the boundaries of the object, one is attracted to a collection of behaviors or manifestations of nature that they construct as an object.