Matterlessness

On Form and Lists in Architectural Part-thinking

Jordi Vivaldi - 25.04.2019

MATTERLESSNESS
On Form and Lists in Architectural Part-thinking

Abstract:
In experimental academic architecture and over the past decade, the term “matter” has achieved great popularity. Its meaning has defini-
tivelly moved away from the neutral and flat mold posed by Aristotle, acquiring in the last centuries and through the concepts of “truthful-
ness” and “vitalism” some of the features traditionally ascribed to “form”. The aim of this article is to argue that the current culmination of
this process is triggered by the technological condition of the Age of Antrobology and, paradoxically, does not imply the radicalization or
re-interpretation of “matter”, but its replacement by “form”. This reflection is particularly manifested in most of the contemporary projects
that revolve around the expression “Black Ecologies”. In this article, it is applied to three of its most well known representatives: BitMap
Printing, Slow Furl, and BIK house. The argument developed is twofold: on the one hand, it states the relevance that the notions of “infor-
mation”, “performance” and “platform” have acquired in certain sectors of experimental architecture, and, on the other hand, it affirms the
intimate relationship between these three notions and the concept of “form”.

Key Words:
Matterlessness, Form, Parts, Lists, Mereology, Experimental Architecture
The obsolescence of “matter” in architecture’s part-thinking
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The paradoxical formalisation of “matter” in Architecture

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Bogost’s “list” as a materless device for architectural part-thinking
 PRE-SOCRATIC
MATTER

Ultimate Particle Ultimate Field

(discrete) (continuous)
<

<
Democritus Anaximandrus
atomism apeiron
 Matter > Matter
+ Pitagorics lyre -
(lenght vs matter)
Pre-socratics Post-socratics
 HYLEMORPHISM

Hyle as Matter Morphos as Form

Homogeneous Heterogeneous
Passive Active
Chaotic Order
Generic Specific
Unstable Stable
 Matter’s Recovery Strategies
in Architecture

HYLOMORPHISM TRUTHFULLNESS VITALISM ANTROBOLOGY

XV-XVII cent. XVIII-XIX cent. XX cent. XXI cent.

 HYLOMORPHISM
Geometrical Proportions
XV-XVII cent.

Templo Malatestiano, Alberti, 1450 Templo Malatestiano, Alberti, 1446 Church Sta.Maria Presso, Bramante, 1478 Hospital of the Innocents, Brunelleschi, 1419

Villa Farnesina, Peruzzi, 1511 Sta. Maria della Cons. C.Caprarola, 1509, Capilla Pazzi, Brunnelleschi, 1429 Tempietto, Bramante, 1502
“Architecture is not about artisan tech-
niques, but about “cose mentale””
Alberti, De re-aedificatoria, 1485
 Descartes: Pineal Gland (not existent)
Interaction
Problems
Leibniz: Pre-stablished Harmony (no freedom)
 1. Ecyclopedie celebrates Artesany

Enlightment 2. Fisiocracy: Agriculture as main source of richness

3. Mechanicism: World as Gravity + Matter

 TRUTHFULLNESS
Construction - Morality
XVIII-XIX cent.

History of Architecture, Choisy, 1853 Constructive Section , Rondelet, 1789 History of Architecture, Choisy, 1853 Tresor d’ Atrée, Rondelet, 1784 1450

Caribbean Hut, Semper, 1851 Dic.Raisonné Arch. V.L.Duc, 1854, The Style, Semper, 1851 History of Architecture, Choisy, 1853
“The form made by wood can’t be the
same as the form done by stone”
Viollet-le-Duc, Entretiens sur l’ architecture, 1863
GEOMETRIA PROPORTIUM GEOMETRIA FABRORUM
Alberti, 1468 Rondelet, 1789
“Every material has its own form of
expression and no material can take
the form of another material.”
A.Loos, On Architecture, 1903
 MATERIAL SEMANTICS

CLASSIC FORMALISM MATERIALISTIC ETHICS

Container Content

Villa Moller, Adolf Loos, 1927

“Forms are the result of the material
condition of the construction,
but matter depends on the idea.”
Semper, The four elements of Architecture, 1851
 VITALIST MATTER
Ref. Seed Potential - Ref. Primitive Nature
XIX - XX cent.

1st. Goetheanum, Steiner, 1913 2nd. Goetheanum, Steiner, 1924 Vyborg Library, Aalto 1935 Herzog & de Meuron, Ricola. 2014

Einstein Tower, Mendelsohn, 1922 Glass Pavilion, Taut, 1914 Thermes Valley, Zumthor, 2013 Church S.Benedict, P.Zumthor, 2013

Church S. Benedict, Zumthor,

“Wood is one of the most adecuate
materials for architecture because it
expresses its vincles with nature”
Alvar Aalto, Humanizing of Architecture, 1970
“The most essencial beauty for a
masterpiece consist in the life that
its materiality is able to express”
Van de Velde, Les formules de la beauté architectonique moderne, 1923
 GOETHE

URPFLANZE BILDUNGSTRIEB THATKRAFT

Original Plant Formative impulse Active Force

Natura Naturata > Natura Naturans

Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen ilustration, R. Steiner, 1913

 Metaphoric relation

Die Weltbaumeister, B.Taut, 1919

 VITALIST MATTER

Bergson Deleuze

Élan vital powered Self-powered

inanimate substance inmanent substance

New Materialism
MORHPOGENETIC PROCESSES
Manuel Delanda

VIBRANT MATTER
Jane Bennett

INTRA-ACTION
Keren Barad

UNIVOCAL DUALISM
Rosi Braidotti
 1. Eliminates dualisms > Inmanence
New Materialism
2. Formalizes matter > Morphogenesis
“New Materialism constitutes a phi-
losophy of immanence by travers-
ing all dualisms.”
Rick Dolphjin, New Materialism, 2012

“New Materialism is based on the

idea that matter has morphogenetic
capacities of its own”
Manuel Delanda, New Materialism, 2012
 MATTER WITHOUT MATTER
(and full of form)

Hyle as Matter Morphos as Form

Homogeneous Heterogeneous
Passive Active
Chaotic < Order
Generic Specific
Unstable Stable
 Culmination Replacement
of matter’s > of matter
recovery process by form
 MEDIATED MATTER MATERIAL COMPUTATION
Nery Oxman, 2014 Achim Menges, 2012

DIGITAL MATTER RESPONSIVE MATTER

Areti Markopoulou, 2012 Samuel Bianchini, 2014

ACTIVE MATTER BEHAVIOURAL MATTER

Skylar Tibbits, 2017 Robert Stuart-Smith, 2013

LIVING MATTER VIBRANT MATTER

Poletto-Pasquero, 2013 Jane Bennets, 2009

PROGRAMMABLE MATTER INFORMED MATTER

Toffoli-Margolus 1991 Co-De-It, 2017

FEELING MATTER ROBOTIC MATTER

Philip Beesley, 2011 J.Overvelde, 2016

SELF-ORGANIZED MATTER BIOLOGICAL MATTER

Fabrizio Gay, 2017 Poletto-Pasquero, 2013

ENERGETIC MATTER ECOLOGICAL MATTER

Eduardo Prieto, 2018 Nery Oxman, 2016
HYLOMORPHISM TRUTHFULLNESS VITALISM ANTROBOLOGY

- Construction Natura Naturans Embodiment of

Moral Original Nature digital codes

XV-XVII cent. XVIII-XIX cent. XX cent. XXI cent.

“Antrobology is the dense intertwining in
between (in)organic bodies and digital
codes”
Eric Sadin, L’ Humanité Augmentée, 2013
INFORMATION

PERFORMANCE

PLATFORM
 ANTROBOLOGY
Information - Performance - Platform
XXI cent.

Templo Malatestiano, Alberti, 1446 Church Sta.Maria Presso, Bramante, 1478 Hospital of the Innocents, Brunelleschi, 1419
Tempietto, Bramante, 1502

Templo Malatestiano, Alberti, 1450

Villa Farnesina, Peruzzi, 1511 Active Matter. A. Markopoluou, 2015. Capilla Pazzi, Brunnelleschi, 1429
INFORMATION

PERFORMANCE

PLATFORM
INFORMATION

PERFORMANCE

PLATFORM
“Form is a distinguished and qualified
structure able to change and relate.”
Graham Harman, Materialism is not the solution, 2018

“Form operates at every level of scale.”

Graham Harman, Materialism is not the solution, 2018
 STRUCTURE

FORM ACTIVE

MATRYOSHKA
 STRUCTURE > INFORMATION

FORM ACTIVE > PERFORMANCE

MATRYOSHKA > PLATFORM

 STRUCTURE > INFORMATION

FORM ACTIVE > PERFORMANCE PARTS

MATRYOSHKA > PLATFORM

01
Information as Structure
STRUCTURE Mode of organization of a group of parts

INFORMATION Organized set of processed data

that changes the state of knowledge of the receiver
To In-Form means to provide organization,
and implies a Trans-Formation.
 Big Data

Deep Learning

Cloud Data From abstract formulas to literal items

(whole) (parts)
Artificial Intelligence

Super-Computer
Dimensionless Distinct
euclidian > groups
particles of parts
Data Asset 1 - Computation - Data Asset 2

From Algorithmic Action

(Holistic Function)

To Pattern in the space-time

arrangement of data
(Parts Composition)

Max Tegmark, Being Human in the age of A.I., 2017

02
Performance as Active
To perform consists in having an operative and
inmediat impact on its set of conditions
 Metaphoric / Symbolic (other reality)

Performance as opposed to

Potential / Future (other time)

“To perform means to be radically present”
Graham Harman, Materialism is not the solution, 2018
 Internet of things

Wereables

Nano-Technology Embodied technologies

Antrobology

Age of Experience
“We stablish a carnal familiarity (voice,
touch, face recognisement, gesture) with
A.I. systems, far away from the distance
celebrated in modern technology”
Eric Sadin, L’ Humanité Augmentée, 2013
“Antrobology (embodiment) is the pro-
pension of contemporaneous technology
to intensively live in the present”
Eric Sadin, L’ Humanité Augmentée, 2013
The part is not exhausted in its reference to an external
reality or time, but its autonomy is radically present.
03
Platform as Matryoshka
“Platforms are digital infrastructures
that permit interaction in between two or
more groups”
Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 2016
 Youtube

Amazon

Facebook Digital Platforms as Infrastructrues

Uber

Airbnb
 Self-positioned (intermediating)

Network effect (monopole)

Digital Platforms
Crossed Subsidies (diversity)

Market Modeler (formed)

 UBER
form that pemits other forms to happen

Predict driver’s demand

Uber’s Market Modeler Balance prices before demand

Produce ghost cars

“The formal excess is always formed:
there is always a form beyond a form.”
Graham Harman, Materialism is not the solution, 2018
Form beyond a form ad-infinitum

Alternative:

Ultimate substance > Whole > Matter

 MATTER
(whole)

Ultimate Particle Ultimate Field

(discrete) (continuous)

Particles Permutation
Elements Equation
Atoms Topology
 ARCHITECTURAL WHOLES
Ultimate Element / Ultimate Field
XXI cent.

Nakagin Capsule Tower, Kurokawa, 1972 UN Studio, M.B.Museum 2006 Zaha Hadid, Galaxy Soho, 2004
Habitat 68, Bramante, 1502

Nestlé Museum, M.Rojkind, 2007. Yokohama, Alejandro Zaera, 2002

Sepentine Pavilion, BIG, 2017 Art Museum. Togo Murano, 1979.
Particle > Generic > Ultimate > Matter

Part > Specific > Matryoshka > Form

Matter > Whole

Form > Part

 Irreducible

Part Non-ultimate

V + H relational
Field > Parts exhausted in their relations
Set > External classification on the parts
Collective > Common attribute in between parts
Bundle > No relations in between parts
Stacks > External frame on the parts
Succession > Parts ordered through an external pattern
Field > Parts exhausted in their relations
Set > External classification on the parts
Collective > Common attribute in between parts
Bundle > No relations in between parts
Stacks > External frame on the parts
Succession > Parts ordered through an external pattern
List > Conjunct consideraton of a number of parts
“A list is a group of items loosely joined
not by logic or power or use but by the
gentle knot of the comma.
Ian Bogost, Alien Phenomenology, 2012
 1. Preserve Part’s Autonomy

2. Parts interact by Juxtaposition

Lists
3. Account for a Segment of being

4. Operative Matryoshka Structure

 1. Preserve Part’s Autonomy

2. Parts interact by Juxtaposition

Lists Matterless
3. Account for a Segment of being

4. Operative Matryoshka Structure

Lists are particularly pushed by super-computation
“Today’s digital avant-garde uses
Big Data and Super-Computation
to engage the messy discreteness
of nature as it is, without elegant
simplified mathematical formulas”
Mario Carpo, The Second Digital Turn, 2017
 ABSTRACTION
Hierarchy of attributes
(Human process)

LITERALITY
Flat projection of attributes
(Machinic process)
 Lists

Centripetal Lists Centrifugal Lists

gather disparate explode
things together in gathered parts in
chunks of parts contiguous universes
Centripetal Lists
gather disparate
things together in
chunks of parts
LATOUR LETANIES IN A.N.T. (actants)
vs. modern purification

OZONE GAP

Atmosphere

Gorvernment

Directors

CO2 Emissions

Scientists

Planetarian
fluctuations

Fear of Apocalypse

Media
 NARRATIVE BY ACCUMULATION

I like: salad, cinnamon, cheese, pimento, marzipan, the smell of new-cut hay (why doesn't some-
one with a "nose" make such a perfume), roses, peonies, lavender, champagne, loosely held polit-
ical convictions, Glenn Gould, too-cold beer, flat pillows, toast, Havana cigars, Handel, slow walks,
pears, whie peaches, cherries, colors, watches, all kinds of writing pens, desserts, unrefined salt,
realistic novels, the piano, coffee, Pollock, Twombly, all romantic music, Sartre, Brecht, Verne, Fouri-
er, Eisenstein, trains, Médoc wine, having change, Bouvard and Pécuchet, walking in sandals on the
lanes of southwest France, the bend of the Adour seen from Doctor L.'s house, the Marx Brothers,
the mountains at seven in the morning leaving Salamanca, etc.

I don't like: white Pomeranians, women in slacks, geraniums, strawberries, the harpsichord, Miró,
tautologies, animated cartoons, Arthur Rubinstein, villas, the afternoon, Satie, Bartók, Vivaldi, tele-
phoning, children's choruses, Chopin's concertos, Burgundian branles and Renaissance dances, the
organ, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, his trumpets and kettledrums, the politico-sexual, scenes, initia-
tives, fidelity, spontaneity, evenings with people I don't know, etc.

J’aime, je n’aime pas, Roland Barthes, 1977

 RYTHM BY YUXTAPOSITION

A stick, a stone,
It’s the end of the road,
It’s the rest of a stump,
It’s a little alone
It’s a sliver of glass,
It is life, it’s the sun,
It is night, it is death,
It’s a trap, it’s a gun
The oak when it blooms,
A fox in the brush,
A knot in the wood,
The song of a trash,
The wood of the wind,
A cliff, a fall,
A scratch, a lump,
It is nothing at all.

Waters of March, Tom Jobim, 1972

 CHUNKS OF PARTS

Figure 3-2: Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites, Mike Kelley, 1999
QUANTITIES RATHER THAN PERMUTATIONS

D. Koehler - R. Navasaityte, Large City Architecture, 2017

Team Wa(o)nderyards: Chen Chen, Genmao Li, Zixuan Wang
PERFORMANCE

José Sánchez, block’hood, 2017

OBJECTS IN TRANSFORMATION

Advisor: C.Rehm, Jouissance Surplus, 2018

Team: C.Thackrey, S.Brugger
DEFAMILIARISATION

David Ruy, Cyborg Misprision, 2017

LOCAL RELATIONALITY

Figure 3-2: Anthropocene Piranesi, Peter Trummer, 2015.

 Centrifugal Lists
explode
gathered parts in
contiguous universes
 WORLD’S REGISTERS

Stephen Shore, New York City, 1972 Stephen Shore, Siteless, 2008

Stephen Shore, Perrine, 1972 Stephen Shore, Rolla Missouri, 1972

 CONNECTION BY SEPARATION

Espen Dietrichson, Cloudy Cities, 2018 Espen Dietrichson, Hard Edges, 2018
 LISTS, SUBLISTS

Figure 4-18: Suspended Cloud Paintings, Joris Kuipers, 2013

 Figure 4-19: Lake Shore Drive, Floor extraction

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sec_11.8 sec_12.0 5.1.1.7 Esplanade sec_12.4 sec_12.6 sec_12.8 5.1.1.8 Ascension sec_13.0 sec_13.2

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10 10 10 10

5 5 5 5

0 0 0 0

sec_15.4 sec_15.6 sec_15.8 sec_16.0

Continuous While Discrete, Jordi Vivaldi, 2018

 Extension
Extension
Original floor 2

2.5m
Upper cutting floor
Original floor Original floor 1
Original floor 1
Original floor 2
Original floor 2 Junction Extended floor

2.5m
Original floor 1

5.1.1.1 5.1.1.2 5.1.1.3 5.1.1.4

Embedding Perforation Junction Chunking
Sec_3.0 Sec_5.2 Sec_9.4 Sec_10.8

Original floor
Folding 2
Extension 2
Original floor 1 Extension 1

Conection Folding 1 Folding 3

Enveloppe

Original floor 2

5.1.1.5 5.1.1.6 5.1.1.7

Wrapping Serpentine Esplanade
Sec_11.0 Sec_11.4 Sec_12.2

Conection 2
+26

Conection 1

+0

5.1.1.8 5.1.1.6
Ascenssion Spiral
Sec_13.0 Sec_11.4
Continuous While Discrete, Jordi Vivaldi, 2018
 MEREOLOGY
Whole < Part

Whole = ΣParts Whole > ΣParts

Whole < Part
 GEOMETRY
Combinatory

Euclidian
Topological Combinatory
 CONTOUR
Singular

Ideal Singular
Virtual
 ARRANGEMENT
List

Stratum Field List

 GROWTH
Yuxtaposition

Deformation Yuxtaposition
Repetition
 FIGURATION
Co-figures

Grounds Figure = Ground Co- Figures

 CIRCULATION
Jumps

Wander Jumps
Spine
 ORIENTATION
Contour

Core Deviation Contour

 ACCESS
Nestings

Single Scattered Nested

“This is why we defend formalism over ma-
terialism: not (as in most formalism) bac-
uase there is no excess benath the forms
that are given, but because the excess is
itself always formed”
Graham Harman, Materialism is not the solution, 2018
Matterlessness
On Form and Lists in Architectural Part-thinking

Jordi Vivaldi - 25.04.2019