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George gave the lecture called form_deform_reform_transform_superform_inform (New studio methodologies and the production of digital form) at the 2A conference on ‘Architectural Education’, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dubai, 21 Oct 2007

form_deform_reform_transform_superform_inform (New studio methodologies and the production of digital form)

Computer aided design in architecture and architectural education has manufactured a new digital uncanny. This medium, which since its invention was used as digital representation, is now a medium of invention. New territories, unthinkable a decade ago, are fabricated and the boundaries of organic and inorganic are blurred. Over the last 15 years it has changed the entire approach to studio design. The emphasis of the exploration is on morphological complexity. The new tools of topological procedures allow operations such as stretching without tearing, and folding without gluing, preserving only a set of very abstract properties invariant. By adopting contemporary form-making practices, such as modeling in the physical and the digital form, the work of the studio attempts to break some of the preconceived boundaries of architecture, notably that of the traditional sequence of site, program and proposal. Students visualize architecture as an amalgam that sustains evolving transformations through multiple, diverse, and often conflicting and unpredictable forces. The studio design process begins with the hypothesis that, in order to liberate architecture from functional preoccupations, one should relinquish the notion of function as a base-data from which design briefs and projects should originate. Fostered by an unapologetic fascination with formal language, the research aims to develop a cohesive and justifiable contemporary architectural language.

Stages and Process: form_deform_reform_transform_superform_inform