Simmetry versus Hierarchy

Abstract: The essay considers the relationships between symmetry and hierarchy, when symmetry ‘the same measure’, presents itself as equality between the parts and, consequently, tends towards egalitarianism both on the formal-perceptive level and in its possible social effects. Starting from research in the figurative arts in the Minimalism of the ‘60s., in particular of Frank Stella and Donald Judd (on the basis of the studies of Frances Colpitt) to arrive at Bruce Nauman of Square Depression and the Sculpture Projects Munster 07. The translation into architecture is proposed for the social reflections generated applied more properly to the expectations of democracy. The works of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and J.J. Pieter Oud are used to verify the theory proposed.