5/9/2023 0 Comments The black swan theory bookThese houses present a central ideal of Holl’s ‘Black Swan Theory’, which entails working from the specific to the universal – in a field that does mainly the opposite. The houses presented in the book are spread worldwide, erected in locations as beaming with life as they are isolating. Each photograph is different, as is every angle from which we observe space. Change your position from the object, and the whole process repeats. Otherwise, we risk missing subtleties that are finally exposed when, at the right angle, or light, the perfectly focused image appears. Like a camera lens, it feels necessary to zoom our field of perception in and out. Identifying an architect’s philosophy embedded in their materials takes a closer or broader perspective. Unlike contemporaries like Zaha Hadid, his designs are rarely self-similar. Steven Holl is a well-known name in the architecture world. Other than saying, here, look at this isn’t this amazing? It has to involve them other than as spectators interactively…it has to engage them as creators.”- Lebbeus Woods. “If there’s going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently.
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