Table of Contents

Part 1 On the concept and significance of symmetry: the discovery of symmetry; on the term symmetry from the Antiquity to the Renaissance; the development of an exact concept of symmetry through scientific progress; on symmetry and asymmetry as evolutionary factors in nature; the development of an evolutionary concept of symmetry; evolutionary symmetrizations in two and three dimensions; on the syntax and semantics of symmetrism. Part 2 On the problem of organic formation: can an artist approach the world and its content only in a metaphorical way?; evolution as a fairy tale, theory or fact?; can we observe evolution directly? Part 3 Evolutionism/ars evolutoria - the theory of light/colour and form, morphogenesis, morpho-mutability and morpho-evolution as causal form theory: on the question whether there can be a pre-object, pre-morph "life process of form" in nature and art; preliminary evidence and proof for the principle of symmetrization as a form of trend in space and time; causes and processes of morphological evolution; essential facts and interpretations; the architects symmetrization and asymmetrization as the basis for the perception of things and orders as well as insight behaviour, cultural evolution; reanimation of modernism using integrating Neo-Renaissance; evolutionary symmetry theory and universal evolution theory.