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Chapter III
ARCHITECTURE OF TOWERS
The lack of imagination that has led to the architecture
of most towers today leaves much to be invented. The
subject is not new 1.
Imagination must not be confused with either the
formal or abstract play of drawing spectacular forms.
It is the fruit of discovery, invention or creation that is
the result of observation and analysis of the greatest
possible number of characteristics of every nature, both
material and immaterial, that qualifies a place and pro-
vides numerous indices. Intellectual tools nourish it 2.
1 See footnote 3. Auguste Perret describes his skyscraper project of
more than 60 floors, where all the activities of a city can take place,
after the author has highlighted all the benefits of networks dis-
tributing electricity, steam, vacuum, compressed air and pneumatic
tubes for postal distribution!
2 These tools, also resulting from inventions and discoveries, develop
at an astonishing rate, thanks, among other things, to the increase of
speed of computer processors.
