A typology of relation

Abstract

"Architecture may be many things: ie. there is no one thing that is Architecture." As tired as this phrase may be, it is extremely valid nonetheless. From Frampton's Critical Regionalism to Derrida's Deconstruction, this declaration is rendered indisputable. Whatever the architecture does become, however, it can do so only from a boundary [as in both Heiddeger's suggestion of a beginning and in the Greek belief that that is where a thing "begins its presencing"].₁ It is the boundary--the WARP [from Hertzberger]--that permits the opportunities for making to come into being. "Making" can thereby be considered to be the other critical component--the WEFT--in this process of becoming. This thesis is the beginning of a search for such a method of thinking in architecture.

Heidegger, Martin. Poetry, Language, Thought (Harper & Rowe, Publishers, Inc., 1971), p. 154.