In his paper ‘’Toward a Theory of Architecture Machines’’, Negroponte discuss the use of machines in relation to architecture and survey beyond to encounter all possibilities the machine can offer.Negroponte started by questioning the credential of division of creative labor when machine is introduced it was not only found to perform a given program but also to find solutions.
On this essay Manuel DeLanda is trying to investigate and interpret the work of Gilles Deleuze on the genesis of form. In general the essay is about the generation of form. in particular, Deleuze differentiates form into two categories. the first is the “strata” and the “self-consistent aggregates”. Strata is the concept of the tree. Trees are synthesis of homogeneous elements and provide a form that is predictable and can be explained through mathematics. The self-consistent aggregates are heterogeneous and dynamic mechanisms based on the rhizomes that provide a form which is not predictable in anyway and form dynamic connections to become a collection of mechanisms.
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A common point between all the texts that was not discussed on our weekly debate was the fact that all of the Authors (by Authors i do not necessary refer to the text Authors, but in some cases to the people on whose work those texts are based on) where innovators of their filed of recherche. Sure all of them started their work based on the knowledge gathered from previous individuals, but their work in the end of the day did change the perspective of the following generations. Read More
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D’Arcy Wenthworth Thompson, On Growth And Form, 1917
“The finest work of literature in all the annals of science that have been recorded in the English tongue” as described by the novelist Peter Medawar, is really just all preface from beginning to the end- a preface to allometry. The “On Growth and Form” shook the scientific explanation of morphogenesis despite the fact that it does not really include a single unifying thesis. Nor does the visual thinker- Sir D’arcy Thompson- attempt to establish a resulting relationship between the forms seen in biology and forms based on physics.
Manuel in the text analyzes the Evolution of form , taking the philosophy of Deluze as a base .Deluze explains that the evolution of form and structure involves resources that is beyond the potential ability of material basis of forms and structure. The resources for the formation may be transcendental which is imposed on infertile objects and not spontaneous behavior (inertia) self-generation of form , thus always keeping some external forces agency in the background. It may be immanent matter itself that endogenously generated.
The two governing philosophy of actualization of virtual process according to Deluze would be ‘topological and mathematical’. The topological philosophy has been interpreted with the formation of soap bubble , that endogenous topological form governs the collective behavior of individual unit and results in emergence of from. The principles that organize the socio technological, biological and physical structure can be distilled into diagrams that can govern virtual meshwork and other genesis . The inherent resource is involved in different oscillating behavior. Thus , topological form can lead to the morphogenesis of a diverse range of geometrical forms, through the process of ‘divergent actualization’.
The philosophy of mathematics explains that notion of ‘intensity’ would be the key to understanding the actualization of virtual form. Thermodynamic philosophy is explained by the idea that intensity differences are morphogenetic, even if in this case the form that emerging is too simple. The two types of structure would be ‘Starta’ (trees) which emerges from articulation of homogeneous elements and ‘Self consistent aggregate’ (Rhizome) which emerges from articulation of heterogeneous elements . Homogeneous components are linked by heterogeneous elements through interlock and intercalation which could be termed as ‘double articulation’. Hence double articulation could be the key to the futuristic Architecture. Deleuze’s work promises to enrich the conceptual knowledge of both science and art and that in the future it could lead to a complete reconceptualization of our history as well as of our alternatives for the future.
