Lynn Reading Assignment Analysis

It seems Lynn is quick to discredit the conventional practices or "Cartesianism" in architecture in favor of the meta - ball | blob model "composed of disparate components put into a complex relation."  It is clear to see that the latter is the architectural movement in which his interest lies.  However, I feel it is shallow of his argument to come to the presumption that the two need to be mutually exclusive.  I feel that in architecture, the morphological and the conventional [the blob and the orthogonal], shouldn't be categorized as contradictions.  Instead architects should examine their capacity for symbiosis.  For example, in Morphosis' unbuilt competition entry for the adaptive reuse of the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, Thom Mayne proposed a series of syntactic insertions to be married to the found condition.  If constructed, the result would produce an enhanced interaction with the otherwise traditional - style building permitting visitors to experience the architecture in ways formerly not possible.