BUILDINGS IN BUILDINGS OUT

If you use buildings as your Source Image, you likely will get a building as a result.  At least this is what I have found.  But maybe that is just my architectural genome kicking in full force.

With our Transparent Drawing universal mode of thinking, there should be an equality to Source Images.  Source Images of a rock and a tree, for example, should be just as likely to produce a building compared with what you get when you input two buildings.  In theory at least, any two source images are just as likely to serve as the geometrical structure for a building as any other two.  Buildings can be generated from anything. Our process is Universal.

We use Form Combines to establish basic geometric relationships.  And I have found that if you start your Form Combine with two buildings, it is likely you will get the sense that the resulting Automatic Form is, indeed, a building.  There is something about the geometric interplay of two forthright rational structures that shapes your drawing. The improvisation of elements on the drawing evokes the sense that the form on the paper might be a building.   

This is a building.  That is not.  This cultural divide is reinforced in every art / architecture history book that I have ever come across.  Cultural historians have spilled millions of words with the goal of the reinforcement of the cultural distinction between buildings and art.  I guess a corollary observation is that while built forms have been called works of art, can you think of a work of art that has then been called a building?

I’m not the first to propose erasing the cultural dichotomy of buildings and art.   If we stick our toe into this dichotomy, we are immediately sucked into the vortex of appropriate, content, expression, process, craft, etc.   We are not going to resolve this in a pathetic string of 300 meagre words.

Still, many of you are architects.  And if you shift your mind into a Transparent Drawing mode, you will naturally want buildings to result.  

What do you think?  Are the forms that you generate more building like if you start with buildings as Source Images?  Is the Authenticity greater if you start with Source Images that are not buildings, and yet end up generating a building?  The number of these kinds of questions seems to be limitless.  Which is what makes all of this fun.  So the only thing to do is seek and play with this on your own.

My drawing used as Source Images an industrial water tower, and a building from Bibiena’s Architettura Civille.  I input two holistic structures. Did I end up with a building?