1A Diagramming
Emile Chol
Assignment 1.1A
ARCH 610
10/1/2020
- Unifying diverse elements
The author makes a generalization about field conditions being unified, yet diverse elements. The forms of things become less important than the way they exist when they’re put together and the forms of their connection. This brought to mind the repetition of a single form multiple times becoming its own unique form when the parts become a whole. Like the author says the connection between objects become the field and thus determines the behavior of all the parts as unified field.
- Repeated self-same parts
The “logic of accumulation” that the author mentions in Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital makes me think of growth expressed in a static way. The way some built environments seem to grow as the eye travels expresses this logic of accumulation. A repetition and rotation of the same form creates pathways and spaces separate from the original form, without actually diverting from that repeated form.
- Post-minimalism
This more diverse form of minimalism deals with more “extrinsic” elements than minimalism. I would describe it as an evolution of minimalism embracing randomness and informality as well as the process of creation. This brings us to Le Va’s “distributions” which don’t try to control the materials relationships to each other, but rather direct them as “flows” and let the material do what it physically does. To me this is as if a fountain were frozen in time and a visual representation of what the water was doing in that moment was recorded. The water is being directed by a man-made fountain, but the way it splashes in any moment is random and unique with each specific time it is captured.
- Moires
A superposition of two regular fields. I found it interesting reframing the idea of figure as being separate from field to figure being a moment within a field. An experience can be a figure within a field of regularity. I liked thinking of this superposition as two experiences or moments being compared side by side and highlighting a similarity between them as a figure.
- Flocks vs. crowds
While flocks are more organic, being a reaction to a stimulus by a group, crowds seem to be more organized with purpose or needs. It’s almost like a crowd is organized and decides it’s direction, while a flock is pushed and pulled by external and internal stimuli. Within a crowd the density is created by choice or desire, while the density of a flock is created by it’s motion.
