Week 9 Readings

Week 9 Readings : Practice vs project – 3: Nonstandard and Versioning

The term “Non-standard” architecture opposes the idea of a linear and a normalised design. The world is seen to have a one sided culture of production and products and this is seen in the process of the design.  Processes including the algorithmic systems which continue to develop into super-surfaces and hyper-surfaces which further allow the architect to mould and create generative forms which understands the organic aspects such as biological structures into their design. This very idea of analysing into a biological aspect is exactly what the non-standard architecture dwells in.

Virtual architecture is also mentioned in the readings to indicate the contradictions of the virtual space and how designs are slowly alternating or changing in its metaphysics to design. As well as that, the contradiction between the digital architecture and the hylomorphism remains unresolved. 

Reference

Migayrou, Frederic, The order of the non- standard: Towards a critical Structualism, in Theories of the Digital in Architecture , edited by Rvka & Robert Oxman (2014): 17-34.