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We Will Be Making Active Form
Author(s) -
Easterling Keller
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1461
Subject(s) - redundancy (engineering) , repertoire , architecture , field (mathematics) , noun , architectural engineering , computer science , linguistics , artificial intelligence , history , engineering , archaeology , art , literature , mathematics , philosophy , pure mathematics , operating system
In response to the relative redundancy of architect‐designed buildings and the proliferation of commercial structures that are rolled out to a highly formulaic spatial format across the world's cities, Keller Easterling advocates a new architecture of ‘active form’. These active forms potentially perform as ‘verbs’ rather than ‘nouns’ to the city's activities, providing ‘the means by which the field changes’ and the ‘repertoire for how it plays’.