Form is the shape and structure of something as distinguished from its substance or material.
Francois Blanciak // diagrams of site less building forms
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The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code, allow artists to generate increasingly complex visual forms that they otherwise might not have been able to imagine, let alone delineate. The newest volume in the Design Brief series Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture is a non-technical introduction to the history, theory, and practice of software in the arts.
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When speaking of the fold, it is the echoes of Deleuze and Guattari that spring to mind – highly suggestive by some of their book titles. In essence, at its core lays the implication of space and how we relate to it. Spaces pass from inside to outside, raising an argument on the concept of boundary and motion.
The composition – organising each part in its place – creates patterns, and establishes the union of different programs seamlessly. This leads to a discovery of spaces of relation and interchange at the level of new organisations and social interchange.
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in-FORM-action is a wordplay on the word information and form.
The key idea is set on a collection of operational terms used to describe movement and action in architectural form. Working as a design tool, it reinforces the idea of design as an actionable process, where form is re-generated by the use of active vocabularies.
Here’s a few examples of this formal lexicon:
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Simply put, morphology is the form and structure of anything.
Morphology is an “account of form,” an account that allows us a rational grasp of the morphe by making internal and external relations intelligible. It seeks to be a general theory of the formative powers of organic structure. The Pre-Darwinian project of rational morphology was to discover the “laws of form,” some inherent necessity in the laws which governed morphological process. It sought to construct what was typical in the varieties of form into a system which should not be merely historically determined, but which should be intelligible from a higher and more rational standpoint. (Hans Driesch, 1914, p. 149)
Borrowing from the disciplines of biology and philosophy, where it refers respectively with the study of form and structure of organisms and the science of the form of words, the term morphology is used in architectural discourse to describe the study of the changing structure of an architectural form and its formation in response to different conditions, such as time or function, or to the relationship of a form to existing typologies.
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Zoomorphic deals with the animalization of inanimate objects. Animal bone structures lurk in the bridges of Santiago Calatrava and Ian Ritchie, and also in the metaphorical and concept-generating wings, fins, scales and crustacia of countless student design projects.
The notion of animal forms as a source from which to inform human made structures was popularized in D’Arcy Thompsons book On Growth and Form back in 1961. Meanwhile, plenty of literal and abstract representations of mammal, bird and fish forms abound in the built environment from…
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