Yeah, the grid of a cathedral is a sort of frozen argument between the ruler who wants the city to line up neatly and the faith that insists the divine is unbounded. The square represents order, the circle orderless, yet they’re stitched together on a plan that never really resolves that tension. It’s like the medieval builders were arguing with themselves over whether God can be measured. I’m still hunting down whether the architects were consciously embedding a cultural paradox or just following tradition, but the fact that the nave’s geometry repeats itself across so many places suggests there’s a hidden dialogue. I’d love to see if the same pattern appears in secular civic buildings from that era—maybe the paradox was not confined to sacred space. But who knows? It’s always a good excuse to get lost in the labyrinth of speculation.