W.02 "THE MUSES ARE NOT AMUSED"

Silvetti reduces the lines of contemporary architectural design to finite concepts that he argues determine the outcome of design through their respective approaches. Program-ism creates architectural design through the conversion of programatic diagrams into built 'form', Thematization "seeks to shorten the distance between the model used as a referent and the architecture produced to invoke it," Blobs create forms without meaning, Literalism takes language and derives formal representations directly through metaphors.

I'm not one for such gross reductivism, instead I see a gray area where aspects of each could be expunged to enhance a design. Of course a programmatic diagram cannot be mistaken for tectonics, but they do help analyze potential occupant relationships. Thematization may not be relevant in the realm of academia, but the public loves the referent more then they do the repercussions. Blobs harken to our nostalgia of the future and science fiction, yet Silvetti provides insight in the manner when he writes "it is only a matter of time before our nostalgia for the future will become just as ridiculous and debilitating" as any historical revivalist periods that have come before. I don't believe that Literalism really exists, I believe people often don't have the words to describe their intentions and/or finished products so they hide beneath a veil of conceptualism and metaphors. So my idea is to create architecture not solely in any of these realms, but to pull from multiple disciplines and medias so as to create a strong enough catalogue of referents to position the design with its greatest potential.