ABSTRACT
The above statement describes exactly the visions of movement and architecture in modern sports. The streamlined body moves in a straight line in a universe of right angles. This spatial configuration is related to the selfimage of sport as being a planned, controlled and regulated activity, producing results in the cognitive hierarchy of strategy, tactics and technique (Hagedorn et al., 1985; Nitsch, 1982; Weinberg, 1985). Once it is decided, the sportive way leads directly to the goal. Curved lines would be dysfunctional, a waste of space, time and energy. The ornament is the expression of a primitive premodernity, or even a crime against modernity (Loos, 1962). The sportive and productive modern human being shows a straight, upright body, not the crooked poise of the crook (Hoberman, 1989). How does the world of sports buildings relate to this configuration?
