A further structural example

There was no reason to make the building bend or wiggle. There was no reason to make it go in and out. The idea that a building becomes more “organic” if it has a more complex form, even when based on notions of the interior organization, is almost always wrong.

Consideration of geometry alone, taken on its own merits, and acted on with ruthless strength, will generate a more profound, more living form. It is subdivision, and subdivision again, and further subdivision of the parts, which creates the form. A purely geometric process creates the order.

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