Reframing the idea of figure ground in order to gain a more rich sense of context. Eisenman follows Deleuzian thinking and continues with the development of the “objectile” as something not concerned with “essential form” but with an “event”. This event relates back to the “dilating” and “folding” of matter discussed in “Pleats of Matter”.
In the Rebstock Park Master plan, Eisenman borrows the concept of the fold to integrate figure and ground, subject and object, plan and section. He uses the fold and the dimensionality of the edge, or the continuity of the surface as a way to reframe relationships such as “old and new, transport and arrival, and commerce and housing”. He compares the fold to the “mat in a picture frame” underscoring its ability to connect the two worlds of the tangible and the intangible, subject and object and seen and unseen.
Eisenman also introduces the mathematics of Rene Thom and catastrophe theory. Using Thom’s seven elementary events, Eisenman discusses, what I believe is, a sort of event plane, whose virtual curvature maps events, possibilities and processes. This type of mapping would be a complex series of nonlinear relationships rather than a sort of Cartesian rational 1 to 1 mapping.
If I understand correctly, there would be folds in this surface that would connect unforeseen possibilities and events. It is within the folds that all of the possibilities of becoming are hidden, what Deleuze called the “meanders and detours”. Eisenman explains, “The fold, then, becomes the site of all the repressed immanent conditions of existing urbanism”. This sounds like Deleuze’s butterfly and caterpillar.
And again I cannot help but to think of the tools we use, Maya, Max, Animations, Etc…From fluid dynamics to particle systems and even splines, our tools embody, and are used to explore, this new sense of the “objectile” and “event”…Our pursuit of physical form dabbles in a metaphysical philosophy of being and becoming…Digging it!
I have not read Greg Lynn but maybe this is partially why the curve is “groovy”?
In the Rebstock Park Master plan, Eisenman borrows the concept of the fold to integrate figure and ground, subject and object, plan and section. He uses the fold and the dimensionality of the edge, or the continuity of the surface as a way to reframe relationships such as “old and new, transport and arrival, and commerce and housing”. He compares the fold to the “mat in a picture frame” underscoring its ability to connect the two worlds of the tangible and the intangible, subject and object and seen and unseen.
Eisenman also introduces the mathematics of Rene Thom and catastrophe theory. Using Thom’s seven elementary events, Eisenman discusses, what I believe is, a sort of event plane, whose virtual curvature maps events, possibilities and processes. This type of mapping would be a complex series of nonlinear relationships rather than a sort of Cartesian rational 1 to 1 mapping.
If I understand correctly, there would be folds in this surface that would connect unforeseen possibilities and events. It is within the folds that all of the possibilities of becoming are hidden, what Deleuze called the “meanders and detours”. Eisenman explains, “The fold, then, becomes the site of all the repressed immanent conditions of existing urbanism”. This sounds like Deleuze’s butterfly and caterpillar.
And again I cannot help but to think of the tools we use, Maya, Max, Animations, Etc…From fluid dynamics to particle systems and even splines, our tools embody, and are used to explore, this new sense of the “objectile” and “event”…Our pursuit of physical form dabbles in a metaphysical philosophy of being and becoming…Digging it!
I have not read Greg Lynn but maybe this is partially why the curve is “groovy”?
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