Since the early 1990’s the notion of surface has evolved into a formal trait among the avant-garde architectural discourses. Conceptualized within the Deleuzian ontology of the fold it has become associated with diagrammatic techniques and digital morphogenesis, prolifically materializing in the projected and the built by continuity, curvature, smooth layering and manipulations of the ground. Liberating architects from typology and the order of the box, the focus on surface processes diversifies architectural research in exploring and making explicit form defining strategies that envision a redefinition of architectural performance. As a diagrammatic practice that appeals to morphogeneticists as well as urban conceptualists, the surface has acquired conceptual, operational and material depth.
Sophia Vyzoviti delivered this lecture at:
20110419 Lebanese American University, Byblos
20101215 University of Cyprus, Nicosia
20101206 University of Belgrade, Belgrade
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