For one thing she has more patience and, for another, her way of going about the design process is quite different. The lilies of the field toil not, neither do they calculate, but they are probably excellent structures, and indeed Nature is generally a better engineer than man. Gordon’s philosophy and perspective on engineering are pretty nicely summarized in the following quote,
The book was written by James Gordon who was a professor and one of the founders of the field of material science. And in fact, the book does examine these things in some detail, but what truly motivates that author’s intellectual pursuit through the world of structures are the structures that quietly, modestly surround us, especially the structures that have existed long before humans ever roamed the Earth. Upon hearing the title “Structures” one might imagine that this book is about how to properly build homes, skyscrapers, bridges - in other words, complex feats of man-made engineering. I’m in the midst of reading one of my favorite books of the year called Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down and I am astounded by the information I’m discovering therein.
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