Crisis Formalism Notes for EFH
Stating it complexly, this is a studio to develop a formal language based on developing architecture in a thick atmosphere of crisis. Crisis Formalism. The immediacy of an apocalypse mindset is easy to see and hold onto. But while it’s very present, there is also no obvious outcome, no vector that feels isolated enough to examine. Crisis Formalism claims that if architecture is to be meaningful, it must be situated within the flows of crisis rather than trying to resist it. How can architecture maintain order within the scale and complexity of the Polycrisis? Architecture that generates responses to visible crises does not contain the disintegrated and fluid qualities that the polycrisis is built from. The proposal is to examine the conceptual, structural and aesthetic qualities in confronting this issue. What if form can be generated by the flows of the polycrisis? Forces large enough to reduce architecture to a plaything. To make form through harnessing these forces, rather than resilience concepts or complexity mindset, is an architecture of the collapse, of the tangent, of the illegible.