[Andras Nagy]

Sorry Stijn,

But American Indians had it too. I'd have to do a quick search to prove it, but I remember it well.

It seems that the swastika is a "common" design element throughout the world, and as an architect, we learned/studied it as a "perfect" dynamic design. One just has to get over the association with the Nazis (after all they bombed my homeland also), and look at it as a square, with the center cross, and then you take out the alternating half-sides, and you have a swastika.

One of our design assignments was to study different permutations of the swastika, though its pure shape is still the most dynamic (it seems to rotate around the center) shape you can design.

The spiral would be the other, even more dynamic shape.