Sep 10, 2015
“However, when society can no longer define itself in classically deterministic, objective terms, but only in terms of continuously shifting, fluid-dynamical fields of activity, then architecture must forsake the monumental, because there is no hierarchy to valorize, no fixed authority or body of knowledge external to human experience to codify. In such a society, the classical distinction between art and life disappears. Art and life flow together, inseparable. Architecture then concerns itself with fluid-dynamic structures: tissues, networks, matrices, heterarchies. Both social structures exist within the present one: the fixed and the fluid, the hierarchical and heterarchical.”