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“I often hear it said in our technical schools, and by the public, that architects build buildings out of materials. I point out to architectural students that they do not do that at all. That kind of definition dates back to the era of men’s thinking of matter as solid. I tell architecture students that what they do is to organize the assemblage of visible modular structures out of subvisible modular structures. Nature itself, at the chemical level does the prime structuring. If the patterning attempted by the architect is not inherently associative within the local regenerative dynamics of chemical structure, his buildings will collapse. The kinds of spans man builds, the sizes of his columns, and the ways in which, in the end, man must enclose space, are governed by the fundamental principles of structuring preconceived in a priori structuring laws of nature. The principles governing structure not only prescribe what man can put together, but they are operative at the molecular level, at the atomic level and at the nuclear level. They are also operative in each of man’s life cells and throughout principles of structure in the starry heavens.”
