Author Archives: Ran Shabtay

On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson In this text Thompson combines Biology, science and Math ideas together, in order to present his theory of transformation in nature. Thompson writes about the morphogenesis, the process by which patterns are formed in plants, animals and human beings. His goal is “To study inter-relations of growth and form, and [...]

The conditioned outdoor room, Bernard Rudofsky, (1955) 1.            In this article Rudofsky expresses his main ideas about the importance of a proper garden, an outer space that is blended within the interior space. Rudofsky starts by saying that people will never succeed in “conquering” the climate, “nobody could say that we have come to terms [...]