In continuing to make original architectural drawings of this kind, which these days could be done on a computer, Gehry is clearly evoking past architects who drew.
What's possibly different, however, is that in the past architects used nature as a model for form, whereas now they speak of it as a model for function.
Since the dawn of building, architects have compared artificial structures to natural structures, and a century ago Frank Lloyd Wright used the term organic to refer to "living architecture". What's possibly different, however, is that in the past architects used nature as a model for form, whereas now they speak of it as a model for function.
Yahoo.com's Jeff Eisenberg talked to some past architects of midmajor upsets to predict this year's darling, and one of them (the former Cornell forward Jon Jacques) hopes you don't notice that he picked Iona.
Much of that is wasted, not least because in the past architects have paid little attention to details such as the design of pipework (long, narrow pipes with lots of right angles are far more wasteful than short, fat and straight ones).
At past Architects for Animals "Giving Shelter" benefits in New York, architects and designers invented cutting-edge forts, modernist dwellings and cityscape shelters for the city's homeless cat and kitten population.
Even so, Tezuka cautions against architects' nostalgia "about a past that didn't exist".
For instance, the researchers note that in the past, an architect might have supervised draftsmen; today's architects instead work with CAD software.
In the past, a Saudi architect has called the modernisation plans in Mecca the "end of history".
In the past, the architect said, he came to visit the tomb of the Imam Hadi many times.
The strengthening of facing-masonry columns represents a current challenge since from the past for architects and engineers.
