BECOMING ARCHITECTURAL

摘要

When Greg Lynn launched the rallying cry of'folding in architecture' back in the 1990s, he generated a tremendous amount of anxiety and even anger over what has repeatedly been characterised as an 'over-enthusiastic' and 'uncritical' approach. Peter Eisenman railed that architects like Lynn were trying to mire the discipline in their own 'cybernetic hallucinations'.2 What most irked Eisenman is precisely what Lynn rejoiced in: the blurring of the boundary between the creature and the creator that the new generative techniques afforded. Failing to maintain the separation between the powerful new tool of the trade, the trade itself, and the creative artist amounted, for Eisenman, to a delusional abdication of architectural authorship.