Abstract
Clarity, order harmony and functional integrity must again become the criteria for all building and manufacture. Engineering necessity must produce its own aesthetic. We must ensure that the potentialities of the 21st century are not secreted beneath the trappings of our present barely tolerable era. The path toward this is not signposted by contemporary artists or architects;scientists and engineers know the route, but lack the conviction to follow it. These conclusion are reached after considering the theory of aesthetics, engineering as an art the mathematical constraints of engineering, and the relationship between the engineer and the artist, between engineering and architecture, and between engineering and industrial design.
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