Evolutionary Process

“I live on Earth at present and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the Universe.”

Buckminster Fuller, I seem to be a Verb, 1970 

Ernst Haeckel - Rhizopoda Radiata - Kunstformen der Natur - 1904

Karl Blossfeldt - Abutilon, Saxifraga Aizoon, ? - Urformen der Kunst - 1929

Rudolph Steiner - Seven planetary seals - c.a. 1907

via Ritman Library

"All life is but a poem, a movement. I am but a word, a verb, a depth, in the most savage sense, the most mystique, the most alive."

Blaise Cendrars, Der Sturm, 1913
quoted in Michel Décaudin, La crise des valeurs symbolistes: vingt ans de poésie française, 1895-1914, 1991

Crystalline Structure

“The New Architecture might be compared to a crystalline structure in the process of formation. Its forms correspond to human laws and functions, which differ from those of nature or organic bodies. In its more immediate conception this New Architecture of ours is the ‘container’ of men’s domiciles, the orbit of their lives. Are our buildings identifiable with descriptions such as ‘cold’, ‘hard’, ‘empty-looking’, ‘ultra-logical’, ‘unimaginative and mechanistic in every detail’?”

Marcel Breuer, Where do we stand, 1935, 

quoted here

Buckminster Fuller at his Black Mountain studio

via Gwarlingo

Herzog & De Meuron - Beijing National Stadium - 2003-2008

M. C. Escher and his models