13. Breakdown of Systems

Systems of architectural material such as structure and skin become mediators to both maintain and articulate the difference between the agent-based logic of organization and the accommodation of program.

I'll end here with a quote from Max Black in 1937: "The line traced by a draughtsman, no matter how accurate, is seen beneath the microscope as a kind of corrugated trench, far removed from the ideal line of pure geometry. And the "point planet" of astronomy, the "perfect gas" of thermodynamics, the "pure species" of genetics are equally remote from exact realization. Indeed the unintelligibility at the atomic or sub-atomic level of the notion of a rigidly demarcated boundary shows that such objects not merely are not but could not be encountered."