What if our buildings were inspired
by nature? The first builders were bees
or any other organism wired
with an evolution for beauty and efficiency.
Go back, for a moment, to 1900s Paris
where a structure’s spires caused people to stare
at the architect and its latticework as he sneers,
“biomimicry like this takes years
off my life.” For Rene Binet, it began
from nature to paper and the drawn copies
with needled lines of tiny radiolarians,
the plankton with engineered filigree.
But nature’s second builders are flawed
humans trying to play with biology’s laws.