formation: exhibition and workshop
Principle Investigator - Alex TimmerUniversity of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
2019
The term formation suggests the act of becoming, an object in continual flux: adapting, scaling, and mutating. This is the reality of architecture. Fixed object hood, or architectural fundamentalism, undermines the ability of architecture to perform in the dialectic creation of a space. This dialectic between a building and its environment creates an architecture of contingency and nuance. This fact of architecture is undeniable: no building is beyond the influence of its context. The question for us today is whether or not to leverage this relationship to design and build spaces that are more than the sum of their parts [emergent systems with contingent outcomes] or continue to double down on our current means and methods [prefigure solutions with every decreasing returns] using efficiency as the sole arbiter of success.