AD Magazine: Folding in Architecture, ed. Greg Lynn (Vol. 63, No. 3-4, 1993)
- Peter Eisenman, Emory University Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA, Cover of AD Vol. 63, No. 3-4 (1993)
- Henry Cobb, Allied Bank Tower, Dallas, TX (1986)
- Peter Eisenman, Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, OH (1989-93)
- Bernard Tschumi, National Studio for Contemporary Arts, Le Fresnoy, France (1991-7)
- Rene Thom and Greg Lynn, Catastrophe Diagram (1990)
- Shoei Yoh, Odawara Municipal Sports Complex Proposal (1991)
- Greg Lynn, Reimagined Sears Tower Project (1992)
- Bahram Shirdel, Nara Convention Hall Proposal (1992)
- Jeff Kipnis and Bahram Shirdel, Scottish National Museum Proposal (1992)
- Frank Gehry and Philip Johnson, Peter Lewis Residence Proposal (1992)
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Cited by GA Tech Professor Mario Carpo as the first significant work to investigate Digital Design in architecture, and has influenced architectural discourse ever since its publishing. Containing a range of excellent essays from Kenneth Powell, Greg Lynn, Gilles Deleuze, Peter Eisenman, Jeff Kipnis, Bahram Shirdel, Chuck Hoberman, etc., this volume fully explores the 1990s fascination with folding as a movement away from the Deconstructivist movement of the 1980s. The interest in this architectural modeling derived itself from the translation of Deleuze's Le Pli: Leibniz et le baroque (1988) into English (1993), whereupon Eisenman and several other prudent individuals began to explore how this philosophical idea could be translated into an architecture. Out of the wealth of knowledge I absorbed from this text, perhaps the most interesting segment occurred in Kipnis' essay entitled "Towards a New Architecture," where he reinterprets the critique of post-modernism by "the neo-modern social theorist Roverto Mangeiberra Unger" as a reinvented Le Corbusier's "5 Points" as a "5 Points of Folding." The two sets are contrasted as follows:
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Corbusier's High Modernism
- Les pilotis
- Le façade libre
- Le plan libre
- La fenêtre-bandeau
- Le toit terrasse
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Unger/Kipnis' InFormation/DeFormation
- Vastness
- Blankness
- Pointing
- Incongruity
- Intensive Coherence
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