Transversing Formalisms

Transversing Formalisms

Kousoulas, Stavros (TU Delft OLD Architectural Theory)
Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (TU Delft OLD Methods & Analysis)

2018-04-30

In the editorial introduction of this issue of Footprint, the question of architectural form is approached from a population of minor perspectives. Inspired by Bateson’s metalogues, the authors wish to bring forward multiple questions on architectural form instead of a single generalizing one: from ‘what is form’ to ‘how, when, where and why is form’. In this respect, they examine the ways for a possible reconciliation between the genetic and the generic, between the discursive outlines of various formalisms, opting for an approach that is both syncretic and transversal. Committed to architectural form, they conclude by claiming that it stands for much more than simply a concept. Form, in its ambiguity and heterogeneity, stands for a shared problem, one that brings together disciplines, schools of thought and variant methodological practices, turning therefore the discursive constraints of the past in productive chances for the future.

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10.7480/footprint.12.1.1969

1875-1504

Footprint, 12 (1 #22), 1-6

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