As Vague As You Can Make It
This year's Shinkenchiku competition, hosted by Steven Holl:
House of Multiple DimensionsEinstein's discoveries (over eighty years ago) overthrew Newtonian ideas, and yet most of us still see space and time in absolute terms, while the passage of time depends on our state of motion. In The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene seeks to resolve the incompatibles of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics through String Theory, requiring that we drastically change our understanding of space, matter, and time....
A small house of 250m2 could act as an experimental probe into an architecture of more than four dimensions; the experiential phenomena of the house will be a crucial factor. The house should also be inhabitable. Materials, from molecular aspects to geometric properties will be important as will space and time. The house will act like a "thought experiment."
Steven Holl
It was bad enough when architects tried to appropriate Marxism. C'mon now.
* Ray, 3/31/2004 01:20:14 PM
