1.1a Diagramming Ideas
- Consequential Space
“Form matters but not so much as the forms of things as the forms between the things.” (p. 92) The field can be a matrix of diverse elements that interconnect with one another in some way. It’s not about formal composition of a series of points and lines but rather local connections down to the smallest part.
- Part-To-Whole: A Relationship
Repetitive parts strategically arranged in a predominantly horizontal fashion engage a syntax. Orthogonal extensions of individual geometric forms offer the field opportunity for a grid or some sort of stringent continuity, but in the Venice Hospital project, Le Corbusier arranges such geometrical shapes rigidly, and each one has a clear purpose and function.
- Tectonic Conservatism
Judd moved his ideas from formal composition to the importance of spatial relations in the third dimension and the visual effects that take place when interacted with through varying perspectives. The point of perspective plays a huge role in perceiving the spatial effect that the Marfa installation creates.
- “All grids are fields, but not all fields are grids.” (97)
Figure and ground that work together as allies (one is hardly complex without the presence of its counterpart) yielding a dynamic effect, and in turn offering a reformation of the preconceived notion of the relationship between figure and abstraction as well as organizational principles as we know it.
- Surface
The plan is the generator. A dream for the third dimension, articulated with lines and points on a flat surface, usually paper. These ideas carried out two-dimensionally take place on a fundamentally horizontal field. Rhythmic reciprocity reveals opposing spaces within one another, and in certain scenarios, dynamic figure/ground study can be achieved with use of strategic counterchange with hierarchical shapes or spaces. Solid, void – dark, light – within, without.
(Toyo Ito-inspired diagramming style).
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