Dr. Mori has rediscovered sacred geometry, or maybe discovered it if Japanese culture contains no such guiding aesthetic principle. I suspect it does. However, as any good artist or designer can tell you, too-perfect symmetry goes too far and also falls into what he terms “the uncanny valley.”
If you want to create true beauty, and beauty is after all regarded as the mark of God, you’ll strive for perfect symmetry but throw it off just ever so slightly in some way. This makes it human and of this world, rather than mechanical and sterile and sometimes alarming.
In architecture, this can be as simple as a window or door that subtlely breaks an established rhythm or pattern in the facade. In a dog, a slightly lopsided, goofy grin. In a person, one eye ever so slightly larger than the other or a slightly crooked tooth. Here, too, the undergirding principles of sacred geometry come into play.
There is always a particular proportion at work, even in the apparent imperfections, and that proportion is Pi. A leaf, a flower, a woman’s face, a church, if they’re beautiful the math is there, and if they’re beautiful it’s been thrown off of absolute perfection in some subtle way.
Look around you, and you’ll see it, it’s utterly unavoidable, profound and mundane simultaneously.
most of us have no difficulty with the "throw it off" part.
I have found this to be the case in people especially when considering what I regard as truly beautiful women. I am always drawn to the less than perfect. This holds true also in the things that people make. I prefer, for instance, older homes, with odd angles and unexpected features.
Punctuate the wall of 1 X 1.6 pictures with an elongated rectangle and an odd oval.
Then view it in the company of a woman whose figure is slightly ecto or endo and whose profile is aquiline.
God has already put enough Golden Spirals in the universe around us.