#natural-design

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"Invisible design propogates the myth that technology will ‘disappear’ or ‘just get out of the way’ rather than addressing the qualities of interface technologies that can make them difficult or delightful."

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Poem: Structure And Form In Modern Architecture, Siegel

1) ‘Structure And Form in Modern Architecture’

Begins with culture of the human nature

Each stature and breathed signature

Is clothed in fabric, forming infrastructure

2) Enter the book through the measuring door

Be scientific with height, depth and pore

Engineering is art and bricks aren’t a bore

Go beyond your conceptions, see the art at the core

3) Skeletons create framework of artificial construction

Horizontal planes cross vertical creating a conjunction

Colourless illustrations illustrate the partitions

Grids, lines and sketches indicate structural punctuation

4) Finally! Some photographs for a dimensional reality

Accompany the images for animated intimacy

Calculated drawings are taught mathematically

But who can define what shell is ‘right’ structurally?

5) Historical lessons in Gothic material and shape

Minimalist lessons by asking a church to undrape

Technical equations lift off the page like a capes

Don’t try to understand, feel the 3D landscape

6) Fleshy organs fill hollowed empty spaces

Growth is organic, so avoid complex races

Nature can be moulded but it asks for embraces

Copy its patterns and roots for an ace in bases

7) Read that human skulls can form a hull

Giant honeycombs blow into Fuller domes

Buttresses all lined are nerves in this mind

Microscopic bone and tissue is a relative issue

8) C r e a t i n g your BUILDING is like r e a d i n g  t h i s  b o o k

Connect the MUSCLE, Re-generate – Anatomical hook

End at the tendons For MOVEMENT, Protection. And look:

What are you becoming, an ARCHITECT, or The Schnook? 

2012 © Zaufishan Iqbal