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Field Conditions, Stan Allen – Response

Geometric vs. Algebraic Combination

This field of the text discusses the difference between geometric and algebraic relationships and how they relate to the idea of architecture and building a structure. Precise rules of differing parts dictate and define how classical structures are used and treated, like that of the Great Mosque of Cordoba. You have to think about the relationship between spaces and those who are using the area; how one can complement the other through form and line and plane, as well as solid.  Overarching ideas need to meet to form a whole using a combination of both geometric and algebraic principles. 

Walking Out of Cubism

An emergence of minimalist efforts became quite popular in the 1960s to define the meaning of the spatial field between the object and the viewer within artwork. Design within minimalistic standards consisted of a reduction of limited and simplistic material choice and exemplify the use of no decorative or characteristic form. What can be pulled from this era as one of the largest outcomes was the increasing use of local relationships between designs and their sequences of events rather than the overall form of the design. This idea almost relates back to the previous one between geometric and algebraic principles and how they correlate with each other. 

Thich 2-D: Moirés, Mats

A grid is an example of a type of field, but not all types of fields are grids. A certain potential that is withheld between both figure and field is that they should work together, symbiotically if you may. How certain elements form a specific unity among one another. By narrowing in on the smaller parts, you can make changes to precise features without obstructing the appearance of the entire unit. The relationship the field has to architecture in that working with figure and ground is that the ground becomes an essential part of the field to the ground or developing structure. It helped me understand this idea when Allen mentioned the use of a city as something on a field. 

Flocks, Schools, Swarms, and Crowds

Philip discussing this topic within class, as well as showing us a video, definitely helped me grasp the idea of what was being presented in this text when it came to how crowds form and move. These intense patterns and dynamics that large massings of people, animals, etc. create help provide a stance on how our society likes to form and how, overall, it makes a field. By tracking how the “boids” were able to keep a constant minimum distance between one another, how all of the “boids” had a constant speed as one another, and how all of the “boids” had to follow a perceived center mass of each among each other at all times. While birds a relatively “simple” objects to track and make predictions, human beings are much more complex and when it relates to architecture, an architect has to be able to predict those variables and dynamics.

Disturbed Institutions

A precise symmetry, axis, and formal harmony all come into play when it relates to western classical architecture. While we cannot organize a direct form of human behavior, but by using a form of local control, we can try to manage the way humans behave within a space. Our world is forever shifting and changing; colliding with a traditional past and how we can implement the future when we create new relationships with specific spaces and objects.