THIS

ANTECEDENT

RELATES

TO

THE

FORMAL

ASPECTS

OF

THAT

BUILDINGl

THE

ELEMENTARY

87

STATE OF THAT BUILDING FORM MUST BE ABSTRACTED, DITION GENERIC CAN BE OBTAINED. FORM WHICH TERMS,

AND THE ESSENCE UNDE~STOOD, THE ORDERING

OF THAT STATE. BEFORE

THIS ESSENCE, ANY VALID

OF ANT CON-

AND ORDERED

SPECIFIC

OF THE SPECIFIC

STATE DEVELOPS

FROM THE 2: Geoffrey Scott: 'Forms imro!cl their own a~sthBtic char~cter The suggestiuns of these forms Is they are gonulnely felt will not be .oo i f i ed by anyt.hing IN" may inb~II- 0ctually discov~r dboul the complex rne ahan lr-al cc-u+l t lcns , whirh in l Jlven situation may ~ctually contrad i c t th ap r.,nt p,e-,;cgE of t.'ne forms. The messa]. remains the ~n' e ", -~e a l sc Foc i I :on 'The life of For-ms in Art'. p.4. 'The funda"ental con t ent of f:'rCf Is a formal
one'

3.
IN ITSELF HAS AN INHERENT IF WE SEE A S,UARE THE GENERIC OR IMPLIED ORDER. FOR EXAMPLE,

IN GESTALT IT FIRST

WITH ONE OF ITS CORNERS BEFORE

CUT AWAY WE READ FIG-

AS A S~UARE,

ANTECEDENT,

WE READ THE RESULTANT MORE A8S0LUTE

URE, SINCE THE GENERIC

FORM OF A S~UARE

16 A SIMPLER

CONFIQURABASIC COU~LEX CON-

TlON FOR THE EYE TO PERCEIVE FIGURATIONS FORMS. THUS THAT MUST

AND COMPREHEND.

MOREOVER,

IT IS THESE FO~ ANY MORE

BE USED AS A POINT SITUATIONS

OF REFE~ENCE WHERE

IN ARCHITECTURAL LEADS

~ MULTIPLICITY OROER,

OF PROGRAMMATIC ESSEN-

RE~UIREMENT6

TO A NEED FOR A MORE COMPLEX

IT 15 EVEN MORE

TIAL FOR THERE

TO BE SOME REFERENCE

TO A GEOMETRIC

ABSOLUTE.

ANY ORDERING CAN BE CALLED TECTURE

OR

ORGANIZATION MORE

OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPLICITLY BASIS'

FORM WITHIN SYSTEM.

THE DESIGN

PROCESS ARCHlAR-

A SYSTEMS

A FORMAL

RATIONAL

HAS ALWAYS

HAD A SYSTEMIC

IRRESPECTIVE

OF STYLI

AND PERIOD, HAVE INVOKED

CHITfCTS,

CONSCIOUSLY,

INADVERTENTLY,

AND PERHAPS

INTUITIVELY

SOME SYSTEM

IN THE DEVELOPMENT THE RESULTANT

OF THEIR WORK, SPlCIFIC

AND THESE

5Y$TEMS

HAVE ORDERED

AND DETERMINED TlNDED

FORM OF THEIR BELOW

BUILDINGS.

IT IS NOT CONTHEIR

THAT THE ARCHITECTS IN IEXACTI_YTHESE

TO BE DISCUSSED TERMSS

NECro~5ARILY ANALYSED TO DEVELOP

OWN WORK

THE OB.JECT IS RATHER FOR ARCHITECTURAL BETWEEN TEACHER

IN THE COURSE SERVE AND AS A

OF SUCH ANALYSIS, BASIS

A TERMINOLOGY WHETHER

FORM WHICH MIGHT AND PUPIL,

FOR COMMUNICATION, OR CRITIC

ARCHITECT

CLIENT,

ANO PUBLIC.