Last in the Earth
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Last in the Earth:
"I find that man has thought structurally in what I would call inefficient compressional logic whereby he piled stone on stone to make a building. He could also dig a hole and have planted the base of a pole and have rigged tension stays from its top to three or more anchors in the ground. This is the way he put a rigid, solid mast in a rigid, solidly framed and planed ship. In traditional land building, tension is only a secondary helper and compression the employed primary structural logic. This is to say that I find most of the world's peoples thinking spontaneously only in compressional structural might-makes-right logic."
Citations
- Tel Aviv Address, Dec '67
