Organic Reference in Design. The Shape Between Invention and Imitation

Historical treatises pursued the search for a rule in geometric laws that envisage the relationship between numbers and forms, fixing the articulation and the measure of architecture. Despite an inevitable inertia, architectural research always showed in formal and structural canons the concepts expressed by geometry, which like any science evolves in an attempt to explain increasingly complex facts, as the man’s ability to observe the nature’s world progresses. New geometries coincide with new space-structural conceptions that refer to inspirational models, which are based on the commitment of nature: on one hand it asks questions to explain, on the other hand it offers solutions to design problems.