MOYSEN_MARAROSELLI_222_S20_1.1A
0.1 From object to field
The field condition introduces the idea that multiple different elements can still work together cohesively. The different elements can follow similar characteristics through intervals, repetition, and seriality, that allow for the strong relationships to be made. “Form matters, but not so much the forms of the things as the forms between things”(92). There is no overarching system to be followed as making a unified scheme lies in the local connections.
0.2 Geometric vs. Algebraic Combination
In the west, it is common for structures to be calculated from the initial idea. In contrast, the more east you go, there is more leeway for additional changes. Even though there are added elements after the initial construction, they work cohesively due to the established design parameters, as seen in the mosque at Cordoba. As Allen mentions, “parts are not fragments of wholes, but simply parts”(94). Each part can have it’s own purpose that add to the whole but do not take away.
0.3 Walking out of Cubism
Minimalism focuses on tailoring to the users and creating something with intentionality. Minimalists tend to focus on the ideas behind the purpose. On the other hand, post minimalism is less concerned with underlying structures. As stated as one of the key points of post minimalism was that, “the displacement of control to a series of intricate local rules for combination, or as a ‘sequence of events,’ but not as an overall formal configuration….instead the artist establishes the conditions within which the material will be deployed, and then directs its flows” (97).
0.4 Thick 2D
Many cities are organized as a grid system. If a city has multiple landmarks near each other, you know that there will be a large gathering of people in those locations, but how does this affect the people just passing through or neighboring buildings? The grid helps you to identify the relationships between structures through the figure ground of the interactions of the users that you may not have considered. “Unexpected effects, exhibiting complex and apparently irregular behaviors result from the combination of elements that are in and of themselves repetitive and regular”(98).
0.5 Flocks, Schools, Swarms, Crowds
The crowding condition is that there is a naturally occurring pattern of the way living creatures interact with one another. Even though they may not be calculated movements, few outliers will not affect the whole of the movement. There is not a way to control nature, but you can observe and analyze the pattern to fit the needs. Four key points to this condition include “the crowd always wants to grow; within a crowd there is equality; the crowd loves density; the crowd needs a direction”(100).
1. emphasize “the form between things” is not a physical construct but an abstract one – he meant the relationship or the rule that organize the object/unit. You are right to say pattern and repetition, but these are very general and compositional and not enough for a system. A system would be to repeat with 1 in then 2 in then 1 in again. A system is specific.The drawing is close but is still representational rather than diagramatic. The last one is more effective. The unit is the line with 2 circle drawn on it. The system: repeat with equal distance and flip the unit on the horizontal axis every other unit.
2. when he said whole there is an implication that a system is applied, so each unit are related to each other by this system. The difference between geometric and algebraic is of unit and system. A geometry is an object thus a unit it does not vary and is complete in itseld. An algebra is a function and is thus a system, it is incomplete because it need the unit to generate the field. The number “2” as oppose to y = 2x + 1 . Where Y is the field and x is the unit and the whole function is a system. You can have any number by changing different x value, but “2” will always be just “2”. I think the drawing is clear, but need to be clearer by applying a series pick the first one and change the language of line to chain of circle, but following the same bending framework.
3. same thing minimalism is a step away from the object and move the focus to the rule that make the object. This is what it meant by design. One focus on the rule and the condition rather than the object. By this many object can be produced equally valid because they follows the same rule. To design a cup is not a question of the shape of the cup, but a question of how to hold the water. If you’re interest with the shape of the cup then the question become the comfort of fitting. if you are interest in the material then the system is about the insulation value. By designing the system one can make many object at the same time that are equally valid. The drawing is representative and is yet to be a diagram.
4. This is again talk about the system, first the grid which result in building of caped dimension – then the system of the building choosing to follow the social logic or other. This give one absolute freedom by conforming to the system because while one building can be wildly curved and the other extremely rectangular both of them are sized within the unit of the grid, hence relates to each other.
5. The rule of the crowd is again a system. The patterns is the field – result of a collection of unit following that pattern. The drawing is stil representational.