Two quick examples showing a  not-quite-yet trend of breaking down the physical world into slices. Is this part of The New Aesthetic or something different?

First off sheets of glass cut into layered ocean waves by Ben Young:

 

 

Second, the World’s Most Complex Architecture: Cardboard Columns With 16 Million Facets:

 

Hansmeyer’s column stands nine feet tall, weighs about 2000 pounds, and is made out of 2700 1mm-thin slices of cardboard stacked on top of wooden cores. It contains somewhere between 8 and 16 million polygonal faces — too complex for even a 3D printer to handle, according to Hansmeyer. “Every 3D printing facility we spoke to turned us down,” he tells Co.Design. “Typically those machines can’t process more than 500,000 faces — the computer memory required to process the data grows nonlinearly, and it also gets tripped up on the self-intersecting faces of the column.”