Week 11 Readings

Week 11 readings – Collaboration

This week’s readings touches upon the property of materials and how physicists claimed that materials only carried mass in any weight. However there is more than meets the eye with materials and it becomes increasingly clear as materialists are able to break down material complexity throughout sophisticated conceptual and technical tools.

The scientific aspect is taken into account with materiality in regards to two historical people named Isaac Newton and his contemporary archenemy Robert Hooke, who came up with the first theory of material elasticity. This aspect needs to be considered when thinking about the materiality of the architecture as each object contains its own matter, and a range of loads that it needs to hold, and without these considerations, parts of the form or even the structure itself may deform.

Digital architecture overall consists of many different pathways, and it is difficult to tell where architecture will take us in the future. Contemporary free forms may or may not become a cliché which becomes a stepping stone and a benchmark into a new era of architecture.

References

DeLanda, Manuel, “Material Complexity,” in Digital Tectonics edited by Neil Leach, David Turnbull & Chris Williams (2004): 14-27.

Cache, Bernard, “Toward an Associative Architecture,” in Digital Tectonics, edited by Neil Leach, David Turnbull & Chris Williams(2004): 102-109.