Beyond form and function: Design is poetry

Last year, my brother gave me Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren’s classic How to Read a Book (Adler & Van Doren*, 2014) as a birthday present (a must-read for everyone who wants to truly read). While the book touches on very much every kind of literature there is and how to intelligently read it, one part especially resonated with me — it was the one about poetry. I myself have been interested in poetry since…