Description
While the introduction of the field into architecture is correlated most frequently with the early 1960?s conceptual
work of Archizoom and Archigram as well as contemporaneous systems-driven Modernists, it has taken
some time for a theory of the differentiated field in architecture to develop. Coalesced by Sanford Kwinter
with Michael Fehrer in 1986 in the inaugural issue of Zone, this new regime of thought was a synthesis of
chaos theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and complex non-linear thinking. In this context, the object was no
longer understood in terms of figure and ground; it was bound up in a wider mileu of intensities, forces, and
perceptions. Intuitively incorporated into most contemporary architectural production, Kwinter?s account
of technology in ?La Citta Nuova: Modernity and Continuity? was a significant overturning of classical and
modern physiological constructs that destabilized the solidity of architecture in favor of dynamic, temporal
multiplicity. Central to