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Un détail de ce qui change : Function of a Function
Author(s) -
Macapia Peter
Publication year - 2014
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.1783
Subject(s) - function (biology) , computation , relation (database) , vocabulary , style (visual arts) , politics , form and function , computer science , architectural engineering , sociology , law , engineering , political science , art , philosophy , cognitive science , visual arts , programming language , linguistics , psychology , database , evolutionary biology , biology
Why should computation be leading to a bifurcation in architectural detailing, resulting in a simultaneous, and opposing, tendency towards either greater precision in fabrication or increasing plasticity? Architectural designer and theorist Peter Macapia asks what is driving these propensities in computation, and what in turn historically might be the relation between the detail and force. What comes into play now, though, when architectural style is no longer identified by a taxonomy of parts, or a vocabulary of orders, but rather by a network of forces and functions correlating actions? How might economic and political power be interacting with force, the diagram and function in contemporary design?