EXP THREE

WEEK ONE

MASH-UP TEXT/ THEORY

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It can no 

longer afford to structure itself as an instrument that resists a single, static idea of 

culture. Mixing different aspects like the present and future course of life, the history 

and cultural background of the area where one finds oneself, this kind of architecture 

can offer a new level of comfort. They do not aim at being disconnected but, 

rather, contaminated with culture. Instruments (codes, symbols, languages etc..) simply 

repeat without variation. As a function of culture, architectural forms need to vary in 

order to address its plurality and mutability. achieves this by continually capturing the 

forces that shape society as material. The aim was to make an architecture that would 

accommodate a great variety of elements and create a situation in which each part were

connected to the others. It seeks to move built forms away from essentialism. It seeks to

establish a productive relationship between architecture’s dynamic nature of culture. It 

requires great variety of elements that architecture gains an ability to define their own 

ground. Order does not have to be restrictive but rather limit itself to defining the 

relationships to build its own system of evaluation and identifies through the repetition 

and differentiation of forms.

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Farshid Moussavi, Function of Form, 2009, accessed 21^st May 2013, http://gd1studio2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/moussavi-the-function-of-form-small1.pdf