INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATORY
OF STUDIES IN ARCHITECTONIC
AND ARTISTIC DESIGN

living between
INTERACTIONS MAN HOUSE COSMOS
new researches on contemporary space

SEMINARS OF STUDIES, RESEARCHES, WORKSHOPS, CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, WEBSITE, EXHIBITION, BOOK, FINAL DISCUSSION

PALERMO  MADRID  PORTO   january 2003 - march 2004

 

Research lines proposed

 

L'EVOLUZIONE

III. interactions man house cosmos in the new aesthetics (deconstructivism, informal, new organicism, high tech…)

AESTHETICS OF THE INFINITE

I say that the body feels more than the eye can see... We were born in the chaos: for this reason inside ourselves there is a casual and complex sense of order, instead of a logical and linear one.

cecil balmond   

 

FROM DECONSTRUCTIVISM... TO INFORMAL

AESTHETICS OF 'DISORDER', OF MULTIPLICITY, OF FRAGMENT

The idea of 'refolding' modifies the three-dimensional space of vision...The refolded space is a kind of emotional space, concerning those aspects which are not connected to the effective any more, which are no more of reason, of meaning, of function.…the subject understands that -he or she- can't conceptualize any more the experience within space in the same way that -he or she- used to do in the cartesian space...Once the environment becomes 'affective' it enters in another logic, a primitive logic that can't be translated any more in a mind's vision, reason separates from vision.

peter eisenman    

 

I think about how structures are changing today; they are losing their specific distinct characteristics and they are more and more defined by how they relate to the organization of the whole and to the relations you establish with them.

You penetrate into solids, you fluctuate inside evanescent distances, spaces open in front of you, every mutation is possible, everything is unquantifiable, without order, dimension, everything happens as within a fluid.

ben van berkel

 

NEW ORGANICISM

AESTHETICS OF FORM IN MOVEMENT AND CHANGE

I've just given you a theory of dynamical organism, of the quantic coherence that underlines the radical totality of organism. It is a special totality which involves a total participation and maximizes local freedom and global cohesion. It involves the mutual implication of global and local, of part and totality, moment after moment

The organic stability is in the dynamic integrity of the whole.

mae-wam ho

 

 

HIGH TECH

AESTHETICS OF DISSOLUTION, OF ABSENCE, OF ILLUSION AND OF AMBIGUITY