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Les mitt essay om Peter Eisenmans HOUSE X
My IDEA is to work with architectural space as a physically & virtually continous intertwine, by sketching and modelling dynamics in space - the negative form, the body, in which we are able to move and perceive. My vision is to make visible the non-visual, as did R. Smithson in art, and Deleuze & Guattari in philosophy. One important tool is seeing through mediation/action, another is seeing through A thousand plateaus. I make the mass of my architecture act as mould for space, movement & perception by means of material & variable surface, sound, acoustics, tectile and structural treatment - combinations of positive plastics, light and vistas. Working with 'folding' and 'event structures' make me reveal an infinity of interconnections in both the physical world and the imaginary, virtual world. The theories of folding and events provide a way of grasping the world as an intertwine of layers. In works by architects dealing with decocomposition ('deconstruction'), one find these layers treated both in terms of abstract content and physical manipulation of architectural elements, fragments & syntactic signs. "Many works have followed a logic of conflict and contradiction, but there is a development towards a more fluid logic of connectivity." As Greg Lynn suggests in AD/Folding in Architecture, the new, folded design strategy offers a way to design heterogeneous yet coherent folded forms that don't simply represent the preexistent difference between a given form and its context, but instead affiliate or link together differences between forms ('texts') and their contexts. "If there is a single effect produced by folding, it will be the ability to integrate unrelated elements within a new continuous mixture".
Transcriptions of architectural parameters - allegory and metaphors, as highly developed in the art of musical composition and notation. Skin is a good starting stratum to study transcriptions, as I see it. I just wrote an essay about Peter Eisenman's HOUSE X. Currently reading: Architecture and the Text, by Jennifer Bloomer, on the relationship between The (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi; Aesthetics of total serialism, by Markus Bandur, on Contemporary Research from Music to Architecture - leading to the 'starting point' of the intertwine of musical transcription and architectural generation of space; Deleuze on music; Essays by Steven Connor. Fractal theory as basics behind the folding theory. Helpful in improving the ability to handle 'solid' and spatious entities as well as imaginative ones - in all scales - as a complex but understandable intertwine of fractals. Currently reading: Earth Moves, by Bernard Cache, on images - frames, inflection and vectors; Constructions, by John Rajchman, on folding, lightness, ground, abstraction - aiming to "construct" a new space of connections; Architecture from the Outside, by Elizabeth Grosz, on 'the third space' between philosophy and architectural discourse & practice. Spatial continuity Essays on space forces and folding as well as Lars' essay about the event structure deal with the notion of spatial continuity, in Norwegian: Essay om 'romkrefter' og Eric Owen Moss; Essay om 'folding' og Peter Eisenman; Lars sitt essay om 'hendelsstrukturer' og Rem Koolhaas. Our recent project evolved around these essays. Currently reading: A thousand years of nonlinear history, by Manuel De Landa, on seeing the source of all concrete forms as deriving from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy. as the name of a book by Marc Augé, with the subtitle: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity, discussing space in relation to place, imagination and anthropology. (Isovistic theory; An isovist in x, called V (of x) may be expressed by the amount of all points en an environment (milieu) of untransparent surfaces, which are visible to a given point, x. This theory may be helpful for designers, relating to space as form(ed) qua space, and space as a medium for transicions of information, where this information furthermore shall be understood itself as actualized in space, explaining/unfolding its sources: where they are, what they are, and even why they are what they are.) Process design I whitnessed the examination of Mark Dyson, now PhD, at Aarhus School of Architecture. He has made a great effort to combine the interaction of design network during the design process with spatiality. Proceeding from the well-known notion of multidisiplinary network, he talks about multidimensional environment. I strongly recommend a dive into his thesis. For a less spatial view on 'process design' Peña & Parshall give good programming tips in Problem Seeking. >>> Related discussions @ EASA Peter Eisenman; #2; #3; Ben van Berkel - UN Studio; Rem Koolhaas - OMA; Leibniz, Gilles Deleuze; Martin Heidegger; Christian Norberg-Schulz; Rudolf Arnheim; Hans Dieter Schaal; Jacques Derrida; Bernard Cache; Svein Wolle, Eivind Kasa; Eric Owen Moss; Daniel Libeskind; Lars Kristian Sjøvold; Claus Darboven Zapffe |
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