"The Universe Ought to Have Form."

found this really illuminating passage.

In his note on the word "formless," Bataille advanced the philosophical explanation for his position on architecture: "formless" was a word, he notes, that was normally employed to denote a will to form, a loss of status in a universe where everything ought to have form:

In effect, in order for academic men to be content, the universe ought to have form. Philosophy in its entirety has no other aim: it is concerned with giving a frock-coat to what is, in itself, the frock-coat of mathematics.

Bataille, qtd in Vidler.

Vidler, Anthony. "Counter-Monuments In Practice: The Wexner Center for the Visual Arts." Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, The Ohio State University. Rizzoli: New York, 1989. P37.