Folds, Bodies, & Blobs/Warped Space

Descriptive geometries provide a concrete foundation of platonic forms and understandings that go on to create a underlying language of architecture. Even when the progression through space and the intent that governed its sequence are ambiguous, there is an order that is rooted in this universal understanding. But when we converse in the written language that describes our built environment we run into the deception of writing. A further ambiguity that is arguably too deceiving for pure forms. Therefore, where form meets language we run the risk of sacrificing one for the other. This conflict takes us from the first article to the second, opening a conversation that has also began in our studio sections. There we discussed the notions of space. It was necessary to further explore the relationship between space and shape, a relationship which creates a condition linked through geometries. The larger question coming back to whether or not the distinguished shape formulating a space could be written in words. The intellectual realm of architecture bleeds across disciplines, connecting our understanding of sequence and space to philosophy and psychology. The opens a dialogue that has the potential to deepen the thought processes we battle with in design. But how we re-present what we produce may well be too much for words.