Thursday, April 26, 2007

metamorphosis_cindy moon

Metamorphosis could understand as a changing moment or responsive situation or environment. Theses articles are talking about how architecture deals with volatile contemporary circumstance momentary experience.

Metamorphosis comes from Greek and it means changing from one form to another. The meaning of changing brings so many interpretations and it includes layer of self-reference (1, Marina Warner) In this concept, everything changes and nothing dies. So it could expend and self-modified to adjust the environment. Because of transformation concept, it also used in philosophy to understand personal identity. As KAFKA wrote about metamorphosis, it couldn’t need to be transformation of appearance. It also contains transformation of self consciousness; it’s more about potential extent of metamorphosis.

In the article ‘A natural model for architecture’, the author mentions responsive environment and soft architecture. To adjust evolutionary environment, flexible approach is requested. And some kind of possibility of alteration enables because the development of technology could apply to architecture and it helps to create self-organizing system.

In other hand, entropy could be or not be metamorphosis. In Robert Smithson’s opinion, on going aspect of things be a kind of entropic architecture or de-architecturalization. Because architecture try to manifest it and architect seems to be idealists and not dialecticians. But certain mistakes cause entropy and people could experience marvelous and energetic juxtaposition occur.

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