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The followers of Mies are today laboring with enthusiasm to integrate the complicated mechanism of today's building into the clear simplicity of this form world. This school seems to answer the physical problems of architecture so completely that contributions beyond that are not at first apparent. However, the beauty of Mies' apartment towers in Chicago transcends the physical and adds a new dimension. Somehow related to the whole functionalist group but coming from outside the formal limits of architecture we have a new impulse of great significance. There is a new trend in structural design based on the ultimate use of material. The Space frames of Nervi in Italy and Bucky Fuller here and others will have a profound influence on architectural thinking. These seem to be the trends that are going on in architecture today and from these future developments will come. The picture in actuality is more complicated than described. There are interactions between the schools. It must also be remembered that within each school there are men of varying capacities. There are the primary creators of the form. Then, there are those men who work with understanding within this form world, and last, there are those who use the forms inconsistently and without understanding, sealing stealing indiscriminately form one school or another and creating only confusion.

Returning to the basic trends that are active in architecture today we find that many are contributive in spiritual qualities and all of them fit in [[strikethrough]] . [[/strikethrough]] our basic definition of architecture and augment it where today we are weak - it is therefore logical that with the maturity of our civilization and the greater respect for cultural non-materialistic aims that spiritual qualities will flourish. Our architecture will then [[strikethrough]] beome [[/strikethrough]] become complete and take an important place in history with the Greek, the Gothic and the Renaissance.