the manifesto

Iconomy and the new flatness:

“Modern architects see everything through the camera. They make decisions on the basis of what they see through the lens. At a certain point architecture internalises the flatness of a 2-dimensional magazine image; the 3-dimensional world becomes a photographic surface.”

“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”

Thereupon, supersurface to the rescue!

Iconomical supersurfaces and topological supersurfaces, intractably bound within the contemporary iconic, both underpinned by a notion of depth vs. depthlessness, physical, ideological and visual.

The Modernist grid, brimful of rationalist implications has been ‘Splined’. Monumentalised in the 90’s, the new curvilinear grid has stripped its predecessor of its constructed functionalist value, establishing a new topological flatland.

The iconic of the future continues the idea of iconic scale and is situated formally between the experience of the implied depth of the photographic surface and carefully defined topological viewpoints with their internalised flatness - clocked in the blink of an eye.

We must de-compress depth and rekindle the project of transparency via the re-signification and re-application of the modernist grid in the form of the digital grid (nurbs mesh).

RGH