ORIGINS OF FORM

“The shape of natural and man-made things- Why they came to be as the way they are
and How they change.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christopher Williams was an American book writer and professor, he thought
to write about the basic forms and shapes of things and how the shape is evolved. In
his book, Origins of Form, he talked about the awareness of the natural reasoning
about the basic forms of the mountains, the trees, the chair, and elements like iron,
gold, lithium. This book was published in 1981 by Architectural Book Publishing
Company. The book has 145 pages.

SUMMARY
The book highlights about how the life started on this planet three to five billion
years ago, the correct amount of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen are correctly
mixed to form the life, like, how the 26 letters of alphabet into meaningful words,
sentences and thoughts, the laws of nature direct these elements of our physical world
into meaningful forms. A grasp of the way thing best fit together, be it a language or
an object, is essential. The book talks about how the different species specialized
environment to employ their lives. Some life forms found a way of living in the deep
sea, some in the desert and some in the sky. Talking about the humans, the book says,
the central nervous system was becoming finely developed, the brain capacity
expanded, the eyes became able to focus on a fixed point for extended periods of time,
the posture became erect, which enabled the pre-man to run and keep cool away from
the ground, and sometimes even outrun its prey.

MY VIEWS
The books highlight the evolution of forms and shapes and their causes of the
things started five billion years ago. He makes connections between everything like,
why the growth of leaves on a plant forms the shape as the curve of the horns on a
deer, why chicken`s egg is the same shape as a falling raindrop. He is careful to add
time to the idea he describes, pointing out that on a long enough timescale, glass and
even mountains are fluid. This book is a call to see the limits of size, the vernacular of
a material, how elements relate, and how history, function, and structure control, and
if an object should be made otherwise.

I liked this book; I would rate it 8 out of 10.

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