all i got was pics and pages of people talking about this post. :) nothing i havent seen yet .what did you see?
nassim is legit af. vector eqilibrium is my favorite. have you seen the cuboctohedron, RReV n ANT?
plywood and gypsum (most construction materials) are hazardous waste. y use that to build some thing to live in? only if you are poor, cheap, or dumb. squares are used because it is assumed that laborers are to dumb to do different kinds of math. there are other drawbacks to rectilinear design. air flow being the most obvious example, but there are many other reasons that are more subtle.