"An Architecture of Endless Folds"
[folds, blobs, nets, skins, diagrams]
Water Cube PTW Architects and Arup
[cuts, rifts, faults, negations]
Parc de la Villette Bernard Tschumi
[types, signs, structures, morphologies]
Casa del Fascio Giuseppi Terragni
The description of "an architecture of endless folds" in Skin and Bones [Folded Forms from Leibniz to Lynn] by Anthony Vidler was the most striking to me. Vidler compares the ideas of Deleuze and Leibniz to the characteristics of contemporary architecture. The idea of an architecture of endless folds brings to my mind images of Zaha Hadid's work, not that of the Baroque. As Vidler explains, "architects, always searching for the tangible attribute of an abstract thought; but its not at all clear that folds, in the sense of folded forms, correspond in any way to Deleuze's concept, or even less to Leibniz's model". Its intresting to note the histery and realize that the evolution of these ideas has been able to happen through the innovation in technology.
Opera House Zaha Hadid
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