Yet the overall effect of her work is often vibrantly organic; pieces sometimes look as if they were grown, rather than constructed.
A NEW museum rises from Seattle's streets like great, billowing clouds of rippling aluminum and stainless steel, its shapes so devoid of straight lines that it appears to have been grown rather than to have been built by human hands.
But captive, genetically modified micro-organisms, such as those that would run Dr Venter's putative solar-powered fuel cells, probably do have a big future.Large organisms, too, may be exploited in ways as yet hard to imagine: furniture that is grown, rather than made; clothing that eats the dead skin its wearer sheds; miniature pet dragons (fire-breathing optional) as household pets.
And if we are obsessing about where our food is from and how it's grown rather than whether our fries are cooked in beef fat or "cholesterol-free oil" (or, even worse, whether our gold-leaf-topped foie gras is good for us), this is progress.
On a volcanic outcrop surrounded by gorges on three sides, Pitigliano looks as if it was grown rather than built.
Interestingly, their prolonged molt appears to be mediated through a direct decrease in the rate at which each feather is grown, rather than a reduced frequency of feather shedding compared to north-temperate species [38].
The tumorigenicity of polyoma virus-transformed BALB/C 3T3 cells in syngeneic mice depends on the microenvironment in which these cells were grown rather than on the content of the polyoma middle T oncogene [ 33].
It is, of course, clearly better that GDP is growing rather than contracting.
"In a global context, adherence to religion is growing rather than decreasing.
