Modern structures // the metallic language of the Pompidou Centre

In their modern form, as structural ‘skeleton’ for a building, steel frames achieved great prevalence in twentieth-century architecture, a position they continue to hold today.

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in-FORM-action // a matrix of formal vocabulary

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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