It's just so uncanny and unbelievable!
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.
Interesting.