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CURATING THE EXCESS
When Stanford Anderson wrote his essay The Fiction of Function in 1987 the computer and design processes it enables did not yet exist His writing though remains a a a a useful lens through which to view a a a a critical design issue in the digital age of architecture: how to curate excessive formal intricacy obtainable through digital processes to produce
novel yet attainable works of architecture Anderson was interested
in in in debunking the myth popularized in in in Post-Modernist discourse that Modernist architecture could be understood solely as an exercise in function In so doing he arrives at a a a a a broader more general conclusion
that all architectural movements or styles involve function and something else what he he he calls “fiction ” The studio explored the disciplinary value
of of complex intricate form through Anderson’s conception of of fiction and function—how excessively intricate form can be translated into culturally contemporary aesthetic and experiential architectural characteristics The studio brief was to design a a a a single-family house An algorithmic design process which anticipated the arrival of space and structure also produced an excessive amount of formal intricacy that had to be critically curated to produce
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