Thursday, 21 May 2015

Week 9 Reading - Theories of the Digital in Architecture – The Orders of the Non-Standard

Non-standard Architecture is trying to break the boundaries of the traditional understanding of rationalism, rationalisation, technicism and engineering[1]. By doing so people are hoping to identify the most accurate apprehension of the mutation of the processes of conception and production of architecture[2]. In a constantly changing world and environment today we are often introduced to new computer software, and in terms of architecture it is opening a generative domain, an algorithmic culture opening the potentialities of complex morphogenesis and complex geometries[3], that once upon a time may not have been possible. From this, many different interpretations and theories arose, challenging the original critical dialogue[4]. One of the first interpretations of this came from the field of American neo-structuralism[5] whereby the transcript of changed and focused on the typologies and morphologies[6] of Architecture. Edmund Husserl’s approach tried to define the ‘vague morphological entities’[7], focusing on formal and material, and opening the way to a radical logicisation of ontology[8]. Gilles Deleuze’s theory of multiplicities was bound to a mathematisation defined from differential calculus. The valuation of a generic immanence imposed a new understanding of the singularisation[9]. Rene Thom had a dynamic understanding of morphogenesis, where non-standard analysis was the tool[10], and he understood the relationship between mathematics and nature, creating an integration of infinite in the numbers to define the signalisation of a form or motive[11]. “The standard is established on solid foundations, not arbitrarily, but in the secure knowledge of things motivated and logic controlled by analysis and experimentation.”[12]



[1] Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 17
[2] Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 17
[3]Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 17
[4]Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 17
[5]Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 17
[6]Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 17
[7]Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 17
[8] Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 17
[9] Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 19
[10] Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 19
[11] Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 19
[12] Migayrou, Frédéric, “The Order of the Non-Standard: Towards a Critical Structualism,” in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014), Page 32

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