form

not form, but forming, not form in its final appearance, form in the process of becoming, a genesis.

Form [...] is a ‘diagram of forces

Ce n'est pas l'angle droit qui m'attire ni la ligne droite, dure, inflexible, inventée par l'homme. Seule m'attire la courbe libre et sensuelle, la courbe que je retrouve dans les montagnes de mon pays, dans le cours sinueux de ses rivières, dans les vagues de la mer, dans le corps de la femme préférée. De courbes est fait l'univers, l'univers courbe d'Einstein.

In biology material is expensive but shape is cheap. As of today the opposite was true in the case of technology.

The characteristic form results from the organisation of matter in space, the arrangement of elements according to a number of embedded rules

[One must not] fear that the adoption of forms and volumes closely following natural laws must lead to a monotonous and unsupportable uniformity of products.

Not form, but forming, not form in its final appearance, form in the process of becoming, a genesis.

Form poses a problem which appeals to the utmost resources of our intelligence, and it affords the means which charm our sensibility and even entice us to the verge of frenzy. Form is never trivial or indifferent; it is the magic of the world.

There are deep moral/practical reasons for our search which give form to our work: with the form we create we can adjust to the laws of matter with all reverence, forming a dialogue with reality and its mysteries in essential communion… For architecture to be truly constructed, the materials must be used with profound respect for their essence and possibilities; only thus can ‘cosmic economy’ be achieved… in agreement with the profound order of the world; only then can have that authority that so astounds us in the great works of the past.