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Architecture as Index: Toward a Theory of Contingency
Many theorists explore the problem of content in architecture in terms of representation, or the utilization of symbolic and often historicist imagery to ex-tend an object's meaning within a larger spatial/cultural context This paper suggests that an alternate mode of establishing associative content can be based in abstraction, or nonrepresentational means in terms of architecture's capacity to perform as “index.” The notion of index is an attempt to understand architecture as a direct physical manifestation of an external cause based on establishing an explicit physical connection, or cross-referencing between “cause and effect” The result is an architecture contingent upon those factors that can generate an inalterable formal response, or an architecture that “makes itself.”
Architecture as Index: Toward a Theory of Contingency
Many theorists explore the problem of content in architecture in terms of representation, or the utilization of symbolic and often historicist imagery to ex-tend an object's meaning within a larger spatial/cultural context This paper suggests that an alternate mode of establishing associative content can be based in abstraction, or nonrepresentational means in terms of architecture's capacity to perform as “index.” The notion of index is an attempt to understand architecture as a direct physical manifestation of an external cause based on establishing an explicit physical connection, or cross-referencing between “cause and effect” The result is an architecture contingent upon those factors that can generate an inalterable formal response, or an architecture that “makes itself.”
Architecture as Index: Toward a Theory of Contingency
Scherr, Richard (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 44 ; 172-181
1991-05-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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