the critical debate in architecture must move beyond the blob vs. the box. the exploration of form as an end-in-itself is no longer delivering radical shifts. for the past ten years, architecture has focused on computationally intensive geometry. now, it must engage the territory presented by the network, both as a site for a new kind of architecture, and as a tool for rethinking the nature of design as a cultural construct.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Architecture and Ritual
It is not architecture’s role to fabricate ritual - it can however lend existing ritual a higher degree of coherence, framing it in relation to its often obscured cultural and psychological context.
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