By Philip Steadman
The Evolution of Designs tells the background of the numerous analogies which were made among the evolution of organisms and the human creation of artefacts, in particular constructions. It examines the results of those analogies on architectural and layout conception and considers how fresh organic considering has relevance for layout.
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First, the methods of classification used in eighteenth-century natural history turned on visible and formal properties of plant or animal species; and although organs corresponding to certain biological functions might be singled out to provide the basis of a system, the principle of classification was nevertheless not at bottom a functional one. Second, the idea that the classification would come to order all species into a continuous series, with minute gradations marking the differences of species at all points, carried with it a series of implications.
In a very loose and metaphorical way, the geographical variety in styles of contemporary architecture could be seen to correspond to the variety of living species, while the historical styles reconstructed from archaeological evidence would be the counterparts of fossil species. There was a further problem for the eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury architects, and that was the emergence, with the industrial and social revolutions, of demands for quite new types of building with functions which were largely unprecedented.
R. 28 They both belonged to a club devoted to the discussion of questions of natural and artistic form, set up in Edinburgh in 1851. 29 The original work of Zeising was very influential; as Herbert Read says, Zeising ‘tried to prove that the Golden Section is the key to all morphology, both in nature and in art’,30 and he inspired others such as Moessel in Germany, and – through the psychological work of G. T. 33 Regular growth processes of this kind result often in spiral forms, of which the patterns of seeds on the sunflower head, the pine-cone and the arrangement of segments around the skin of the pineapple are the most impressive and admired examples.