Across the globe people have been inspired to create structures based on natural forms.
Leonardo da Vinci drafted the first spiral staircase plans (which are still used by architects today) from studying the simple snail shell with its interior whorls.
Architecture gives form to the invisible pulses and rhythms of life. It gives pattern to structure and structure to pattern. It is an elemental mystic power that is innate to all things. The physical manifestation of this power is a consequence of the desire for the invisible to be made visible. This desire, this great motivating force is essential to the life of a thing. It is a process which organizes and composes various interrelated forces into a unified whole. Architecture is the comprehensive expression of all science and art–the wellspring of interconnectedness and functional art.
-Eugene Tsui
Evolutionary Architecture
