ABSTRACT
Science is essentially analytical. It looks at any phenomenon, from something as cold and empty of significance as the orientation of a molecule on a surface, to the bearing of a man whose head is bloody but unbowed. The scientific attitude to the world does not in the slightest deny the emotional effects produced on men by their experience; what it tries to do is to classify the mechanisms by which these effects were produced. Science influences architecture, as it does abstract painting, not only in its materials but more profoundly, though perhaps less directly, in its general outlook. Marcel Breuer in his work makes very imaginative use of new materials. The most important point about architecture is that it is in it, more than in any of the other arts, that the stupendous practical effects of scientific and artistic theories become most obvious.
