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Frozen Void: The Elegant Affect of the Evolved Object
Author(s) -
Sotamaa Kivi
Publication year - 2007
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.393
Subject(s) - elegance , void (composites) , affect (linguistics) , object (grammar) , aesthetics , the void , computer science , epistemology , art , philosophy , artificial intelligence , sociology , communication , materials science , composite material
The notion of elegance tends to focus on the finished object ‐ the complete and seamless work ‐ rather than the expression of process per se. Here, Kivi Sotamaa shows how he set out with his Frozen Void ‘to achieve an elegant affect in the evolved object’. In so doing, he reveals how this type of intensification is, in fact, fundamental to the emergence of the new elegance, where intensity renders a greater potential for features within the surface to emerge to different parameters. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.