Organic images for the human society were developed by the Greeks. They concieved the citizen, the city, and the cosmos to be built according to the same principles. To see the structure of human groups as a mirror of natural forms has remained imaginatively and intellectually powerful. Reinesance architects drew on these organic images. We are all familiar with their designs. But major changes in science and technology have occured. The problem is that dualism of people and machines exludes humanism in a meaningful sense. We are in third nature with the more recently designed " digital architectures ".

/ Arie Graafland, Digital Worlds /