The Forces of Architectural Design
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Greg Lynn’s theorization of the animate form and animate design in architecture referred to the consideration of structural changes in the creation of architectural form caused by the advent of computer-aided design. His concept of animate form represented a departure from the idea of the autonomy of form created in abstract, atemporal space. In contrast, Lynn recognizes in the new software the opportunity to subordinate the (virtual) architectural form to the dynamic principles of motion and force. Similar to Deleuze’s idea that “[f]orce is presence and not action,” Lynn defines force as virtual motion and identifies it in the logic of 3D software’s vector curvilinearity, which indexically signifies the continual change in the form’s geometry. However, the “virtual force,” representing a simple geometric law, is also an analogue of the material force that actualizes the form by translating it into a technical structure. This duality, which echoes Leibniz’s distinction between the prim...itive and derivative forces, allows the category of force to overcome the paradigm of realization of the (autonomous) form. In this presentation, this double character of force will be used to interpret the point of “/” as that in which one can encounter simultaneity and absolute parallelism of the ideal and real aspects of architectural design.
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6th Summer School Architecture and Philosophy – Book of Abstracts „Architecture / Philosophy“, 2023, 31-31Publisher:
- Belgrade : Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
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- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200025 (University of Belgrade, Institute for Phylosophy and Social Theory) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200025)
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IFDTTY - CONF AU - Ristić, Marko PY - 2023 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3265 AB - Greg Lynn’s theorization of the animate form and animate design in architecture referred to the consideration of structural changes in the creation of architectural form caused by the advent of computer-aided design. His concept of animate form represented a departure from the idea of the autonomy of form created in abstract, atemporal space. In contrast, Lynn recognizes in the new software the opportunity to subordinate the (virtual) architectural form to the dynamic principles of motion and force. Similar to Deleuze’s idea that “[f]orce is presence and not action,” Lynn defines force as virtual motion and identifies it in the logic of 3D software’s vector curvilinearity, which indexically signifies the continual change in the form’s geometry. However, the “virtual force,” representing a simple geometric law, is also an analogue of the material force that actualizes the form by translating it into a technical structure. This duality, which echoes Leibniz’s distinction between the primitive and derivative forces, allows the category of force to overcome the paradigm of realization of the (autonomous) form. In this presentation, this double character of force will be used to interpret the point of “/” as that in which one can encounter simultaneity and absolute parallelism of the ideal and real aspects of architectural design. PB - Belgrade : Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory C3 - 6th Summer School Architecture and Philosophy – Book of Abstracts „Architecture / Philosophy“ T1 - The Forces of Architectural Design SP - 31 EP - 31 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3265 ER -
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Ristić, M.. (2023). The Forces of Architectural Design. in 6th Summer School Architecture and Philosophy – Book of Abstracts „Architecture / Philosophy“ Belgrade : Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory., 31-31. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3265
Ristić M. The Forces of Architectural Design. in 6th Summer School Architecture and Philosophy – Book of Abstracts „Architecture / Philosophy“. 2023;:31-31. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3265 .
Ristić, Marko, "The Forces of Architectural Design" in 6th Summer School Architecture and Philosophy – Book of Abstracts „Architecture / Philosophy“ (2023):31-31, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3265 .