Lecture date: 1998-11-21
The collaborative projects of Kolatan/MacDonald Studio reflect their interest in the impact of new technologies on the discipline of architecture. One of the emerging spatial paradigms is that of the network as a system of inter-relations between dissipative processes and aggregative structures that shape new spatial patterns and protocols. Their work focuses on the network model’s capacity for cross-categorical and cross-scalar couplings whereby the initial systems are not merely interconected but form new hybrid identities. Â What differentiates this new generation of chimerical hybrid from previous mechanistic ones is the act of transformation. These new systems are not determined and cannot be understood through a logical extension of the initial parts alone. They are hybrid, but nonetheless seamlessly and inextricably continuous.
Sulan Kolatan and Bill MacDonald founded New York-based Kolatan/MacDonald Studio in 1988. They both teach at Columbia School of Architecture.
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