Week 4 Readings

Heterogeneous textures are explored in view of different architects, and he differing and conflicting cultures and individual characteristics produce varying degrees of results. The deconstructivism theory enabled forms to be made within architecture in terms of differences and contradictions. These are seen in projects such as Gehry’s House which was designed in a way that the surrounding environment and the contradicting features and textures were represented in the materiality of his house. These environments don’t just include the basic grass and concrete, but the external materials too such as sheds, vehicles, and exposed plywood. Gehry’s house in context can be seen to be a dominant pressure against its neighbouring environment. 

A new global style by Patrik Schumacher defines that parametric design and the availability of technology help allow the possibility of mass production hence more variety of designs. The view on parametric coding wasn’t just seen as a design technique but a new innovative style which attracts new values and ambitions in architecture. Le Corbusier wanted to view things differently and didn’t want to be limited to ordinary designs and geometry, but a path that takes a pattered and a diverse path with a degree of complexity.  Frei Otto explores these factors in the urban models that he designed, and shows a large amount of components of patterned buildings surrounded by linear shaped buildings to emphasise the continuous differentiation of the path network it portrays.