As structures, Northwest Coast houses shared a few significant traits.
When will they learn that people and their institutions are as necessary to good city life as structures?
As structures, the oversize capes and coats were fascinating, but if Mr. Pugh was implying something dark or pervy — well, that would be just a guess.
"Sculptures are sort of this gray area because they don't qualify as structures if they're not affixed to the land," he said.
In the game, as structures are modified, a score is calculated based on how well the protein is folded.
"Visuals focus on the towers as structures," Mr. York said, "but Davia and Nikki urge us to think of them more like bodies, breathing entities with which people, for better or worse, had a relationship".
Today we talk about capital cities and forums, as well as structures such as amphitheatres, basilicas, metalled roads, pavements and multi-storey apartment blocks because of the idea of the city that Rome bequeathed us.
"I've always loved them as structures," she says, "but, about a year and a half ago, when I realised most of them were coming down I started going out to track them down.
What's more, the number of high-risk dams keeps rising as structures age, downstream development increases and more accurate information is obtained about watersheds and earthquake hazards.
Later the cracks were filled in with slightly younger sediments, preserving them as structures in the rock that eventually formed from the sediments.
Typically with the notable exception of the geometry of the sphere mathematicians had treated surfaces as structures in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
